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According to the development team's recent statement, Path of Exile 2 Patch 0.5.0 should be released around late April this year. While slightly later than expected, the difference is negligible and well within the acceptable range for players.

This means there are still about two months until the release of the new league. If you don't plan to play the upcoming PoE 3.28 or other popular ARPGs, you'll need to focus on in-depth exploration of Patch 0.4.0 for a considerable period.

While PoE 2 boasts a rich mechanic, Druid and its Ascendancies, as newly added content, naturally offer even greater exploration value and possibilities. Next, we'll introduce Bone Blast Build of Oracle, one of Druid Ascendancies.

Bone Blast Oracle Build overview

Compared to the more exciting and visually striking Shaman, the more difficult Oracle didn't receive much attention in the early stages of Patch 0.4.0. However, as exploration progressed, more and more players discovered the unique aspects of this class.

Based on this, Bone Blast Oracle Build's crafting strategy revolves around spell Bone Blast, creating and unleashing tornadoes primarily composed of fire, frost, and lightning to quickly eliminate enemies, including some high-tier bosses.

This build is not complicated to craft or use; in fact, it's designed to make acquiring loot easier. By following the guide step-by step, you can quickly master the usage tips.

Gem selection

Gems include skill gems and support gems. The latter further enhances the former's effects and improves the synergy between various skills.

Bone Blast

The most important skill is undoubtedly Bone Blast, which can be upgraded to level 20. Note that this skill can only be obtained through Bone Wand.

Ideally, you should max out your Bone Blast after entering the endgame phase to maximize damage and unlock the fifth support gem slot. Afterward, you can add the following support gems to enhance the skill:

• Physical Mastery: Grants +1 skill level.
• Burning Inscription: Adds a fiery ground-igniting effect to Bone Blast.
• Rapid Casting: Increases casting speed.
• Mobility and Spell Cascade: Provide area-of-effect damage.

Generally, the above setup is sufficient, but for boss fights, it's recommended to replace some support gems with Heft and Concentrated Area for a significant damage boost.

While this will reduce the skill's area of effect, it has minimal impact on boss battles.

Tornado

When using Bone Blast, you can continuously deal physical damage by frequently casting Tornado. If it absorbs elemental ground effects, the damage will be further increased. To enhance Tornado's effectiveness, the following support gem is essential:

• Dialla's Desire: Increases its damage by +1 skill level.
• Swift Affliction: Increases non-abnormal status damage over time by 30%.
• Overabundance: Breaks the limitations, allowing you to place two tornadoes on the field simultaneously, dealing massive damage. If you find yourself short on energy, you can use Energy Retention instead.
• Boundless Energy: Increases energy gain, as critical strike casting requires energy to accumulate.
• Mana Remnants: Provides a stable source of mana regeneration.
• Amanamu's Tithe: Gives you the chance to acquire Abyss affix, improving survivability and damage output.

Additionally, to trigger the elemental ground effect, you need to use Cast on Minion Death to trigger the frost ground generation skill. For this, you need to use Frost Bomb.

When Frost Bomb is cast, it leaves an ice remnant on the ground. Picking up the remnant will generate frozen ground the next time Ice Nova is cast.

This effect passively triggers every few seconds, so frozen ground will continuously generate in the surrounding area. If you want to make this effect even more powerful, you can also add Magnified Effect and Encroaching Ground.

Optimal gear choices

If you want more elemental ground effects, such as lightning, you should first equip Wake of Destruction Secured Leggings. This grants you an 8-second lightning ground effect while moving.

Furthermore, if you cast Tornado on the lightning ground, it will absorb lightning damage and convert it into damage over time, significantly increasing your damage output.

Another essential gear is Bone Wand, which is also the only way to obtain Bone Blast. Besides level 20 Bone Blast, you'll need to look for affixes that increase spell rating, physical spell rating, and damage - anything that boosts your damage.

For amulets, prioritize spell rating and spirit, as this build heavily relies on spirit. Of course, spell damage, resistances, and mana are also good.

As for focus, you'll need it to increase spell rating or stack as much energy shield and mana as possible.

Since this build heavily relies on spirit, the spirit stat on armor and amulets is crucial. If you find acquiring spirit too difficult, you can use a scepter instead of focus.

Of course, using a scepter will sacrifice some very important attributes, such as Energy Shield, Mana, and Spell Level, but as compensation, you can acquire Spirit much more easily.

Based on this, you can choose a better specific scepter, Palm of the Dreamer, which is a very powerful off-hand weapon. However, it requires consuming a significant amount of PoE 2 currency to acquire, so it's recommended that you consider your resources.

Mana consumption issues

Bone Blast itself, as a basic skill, does not consume mana, meaning you can use this skill freely. The mana consumption for this build comes from Cast on Minion Death, Critical Strike, Tornado, Frost Bomb, and Ice Nova.

To conserve mana, it's recommended that you use level 2 Frost Bomb and level 2 Ice Nova to reduce the mana consumption of Cast on Minion Death. However, the higher the level of Tornado, the better, as it is one of the main damage-dealing skills.

These are the basic tips for crafting Bone Blast Oracle Build. If you're new to this Ascendancy or simply want to save effort, this build is definitely a good choice!

Once you've experienced most of the new Path of Exile 2 patch content and mechanics, the motivation to keep playing might be earning more currency and progressing to deeper stages of the game.

To achieve this, an effective build is essential, and to keep the game fresh, players constantly try crafting and using new builds throughout the league.

Based on this, we will introduce Ice Shot Deadeye build in Patch 0.4.0, which normally boasts two main advantages: fast clear speed and high survivability. If you're interested, please continue reading!

Ice Shot Deadeye Build core configuration

First, as the name suggests, this build is based on Deadeye Ranger Ascendancy Class and primarily utilizes Ice Shot skill.

This skill has very high base damage and has recently been buffed, allowing it to fire more ice shards and deal higher cold damage. In addition, Ice Shot has a good attack range and clear speed.

However, to further enhance the damage of this skill and the entire build, you first need to add Tornado Shot. When you cast Tornado Shot from a forward position, you can obtain many projectiles.

On top of this, you can simultaneously activate Mirage Archer, which will also fire Tornado Shot, and the projectiles will receive the same bonuses you have, ultimately achieving full-screen clearing or dealing significant boss damage.

In this configuration, increased survivability primarily relies on high evasion rating. If the evasion stacks are maximized, the final evasion rate is approximately 80%.

In addition, you can unlock Keystone passive Ghost Dance, which converts 5% of your evasion rating into energy shield when hit.

Other skill gems and support gems

We have already introduced some essential skill and support gems in the core configuration, but to craft a complete and powerful Ice Shot Deadeye build, you need to add more.

To make the core skill, Ice Shot continuously fire frost arrows and deal massive damage, you need to add Elemental Armament, Overextend, Rapid Attacks II, Rakiata's Flow, and Garukhan's Resolve.

Theoretically, you can use more support gems, but Rakiata's Flow and Garukhan's Resolve are especially important.

Rakiata's Flow allows you to treat monster elemental resistances as inverted, eliminating the need to invest many points in the skill tree to increase elemental penetration, thus saving many skill points.

Garukhan's Resolve sets the critical strike chance cap to 50%. This means that when using support skills, if both critical strike chance checks succeed, you will deal double critical strike damage.

Double critical strikes mean your final critical strike damage can reach almost 900%, increasing the overall build damage by 35% to 40%.

Next, you need to add Mana Remnants, which not only grants you more mana but also provides cooldown reduction every time you pick up a fragment - this will trigger Ascendancy node Mirage Deadeye more frequently.

If you want to increase your chances against bosses, you can also equip Freezing Salvo, which allows you to freeze enemies and gain additional cold damage bonuses.

Best gear choices

The first piece of gear to add is Hyrri's Ire chest armor, which provides a large amount of evasion and additional damage bonuses, and increases the duration of enemy freezes. Furthermore, if you haven't been hit recently, your evasion rating is doubled.

This means you can gain more energy shield when hit through the effect of Ghost Dance, and you can unlock Subterfuge Mask passive to allow your chosen helm to provide more evasion based on energy shield.

For gloves, any gloves that provide base damage are a good choice; if your budget allows, you can equip rarer legendary gloves. For rings, it's best to have cold damage, evasion, rarity, or resistance affixes.

Due to the class characteristics, you should ideally use a bow as your weapon, ensuring it provides high base damage. You can then use crafting to add additional cold damage, critical strike chance, critical strike damage, and attack speed.

It's worth noting that if you want to play a critical strike build, you must ensure your bow or other weapon you want to try provides a critical strike chance rating bonus.

To make the bow more effective, you also need to add a quiver; one of the best options is Cadiro's Gambit. It provides many arrows, allowing you to create chain damage, split attacks to multiple targets, and then have the arrows return.

For this build, the amulet is an excellent gear type for improving survivability. With the right combination, you can gain global defensive bonuses to further increase energy shield and evasion.

How to use this build?

After completing the basic crafting, you can start using this build in actual combat. When your damage is initially low, it's recommended to primarily use the combination of Tornado Shot and Ice Shot, which can significantly increase damage.

Once your damage is high enough, you no longer need Tornado Shot - it becomes more suitable for dealing with bosses. After that, you only need to move around and use Ice Shot and Ice-Tipped Arrows to clear the screen.

If you encounter some tough enemies, you can use freezing skills to freeze them, or revert to Tornado Shot and Ice Shot cycle to deal with very tanky enemies.

That's all for this guide. If you are interested in this build, crafting and using it according to our guide will definitely yield unexpected results!

Although still in early access, since the updates have become more stable, Path of Exile 2 has added new skills or significantly optimized existing ones with almost every new patch release, aiming to create a fairer game environment and experience.

Surprisingly, with the release of the new Druid class, Patch 0.4.0 introduced many new skills to the game! While most of them come from Druid, the skill gem mechanics mean that other classes can also utilize these skills!

Based on this, we will select the top 8 from over 20 new skills and introduce their effects and value in descending order, so you can use your creativity to build more builds and playstyles.

1. Lunar Blessing

This skill originates from Druid's wolf form and converts a portion of your normal damage into cold damage, summoning moonlight to deal additional AoE damage when attacking, and also knocking back enemies within a certain range.

More importantly, this skill can extend its buff duration by consuming your accumulated Rage. The versatility of these effects means that even if you don't transform into a wolf, or even if you're not a Druid, you can still benefit from Lunar Blessing.

Generally, we recommend casting this skill when your Rage is full to get the maximum cast time, and then combine it with other skills to increase your total damage output.

2. Walking Calamity

This skill is the top choice when you're looking for a damage partner for Lunar Blessing! Its effect is to convert physical damage into fire damage by summoning meteors of different sizes at different ranges.

To do this, you must first accumulate enough Glory and then consume 20 points to activate it. After that, you will not only gain additional fire damage, but your Rage will also automatically recover.

Although theoretically everyone can use this skill, we recommend adding this skill if you are using Fire Bear builds and want to further increase your fire damage; the effect will be even more significant!

3. Pounce

This is a shapeshift skill that transforms you into a werewolf, allowing you to jump to a target area and deal damage to enemies within a 2-meter radius. Upon landing, it also summons additional wolves as helpers.

From these aspects, Pounce only possesses basic offensive capabilities, so you might wonder why it ranks third? This is mainly due to its versatility: it can be useful whenever you need to close the distance or increase your movement speed.

More importantly, this skill also has an effect that automatically triggers Predator's Mark on the highest rarity enemy hit. Based on this, combining Pounce with skills like Freezing Mark and Cross Slash can create cool combos.

4. Eternal Rage

As a spirit reservation skill, Eternal Rage continuously restores Rage per second. On top of this, each stack of Rage increases your attack power by 1%, stacking up to 30 times, resulting in a 30% damage increase.

Considering that this skill requires 100 spirit to unlock, we recommend adding Eternal Rage only when using talisman-related builds that require sufficient Rage to maximize their effectiveness, or other transformation-based builds.

5. Flame Breath

This is a representative skill in wyvern form, allowing you to convert all physical damage into fire damage through a powerful and continuous flame attack skill, while also providing high attack speed and a flammable effect.

Since this skill can extend its channeling time by consuming Rage, you need to accumulate enough Rage before using it to maximize its skill effect.

Alternatively, this skill also allows you to gain extra lightning damage and reduce Rage consumption by consuming energy orbs. Generally, the best way to accumulate energy is by using Rend and Devour.

6. Cross Slash

As the most important part of the werewolf form combo, Cross Slash generates and detonates ice shards when you hit enemies with skills like Lunar Assault or Shred, causing a large-area explosion and cold damage.

More simply, you can think of Cross Slash as the built-in detonator for werewolf ice attacks, maximizing the damage output of all builds using this combo, easily dealing with most bosses by enhancing the cold damage and freezing effects inflicted on the target.

7. Furious Slam

This skill belongs to the bear form transformation skills and is suitable for players using Druid and Warrior classes and related builds.

Furious Slam consumes 10 Rage to unleash a powerful attack, increasing both damage and attack range, and leaving behind a jagged effect on the ground that lasts for 4 seconds.

This jagged ground effect can then interact with other abilities to trigger additional explosions, dealing massive damage to a single target. Additionally, this skill increases the enemy's stun accumulation rate by 60%, effectively disabling them.

Furious Slam's damage output is straightforward and devastating, making it a must-have for any player who prioritizes strength-based gameplay!

8. Entangle

As an embodiment of Druid's ability to manipulate plants, Entangle possesses a "gentle" yet deadly power unlike any of the skills above.

Its specific effect is to summon a vine that creates a continuously extending fissure, damaging enemies along its path. While the fissure exists, vines will sprout from it, entangling nearby enemies, dealing damage and slowing them down.

Based on this, combined with other Druid skills in human form, you can craft very powerful plant-based Druid builds. However, considering its limitations in terms of class synergy, it only ranks eighth on this list.

These are the top 8 new skills introduced in The Last of the Druids. Ultimately, which ones are best suited for you and your builds will depend on your in-game experience. We hope you have a successful journey in Wraeclast!

As a complex and intricate game, Path of Exile 2 has unique mechanics for each of its internal systems, and understanding how they work is crucial for smoother gameplay.

Weapons are a particularly important system, as they are one of the primary ways you deal damage to enemies, and some skills require specific weapons to function effectively.

Currently, there are 15 types of weapons available in PoE 2, the latest being Animal Talismans added for Druid. These weapons can be broadly categorized into melee, ranged, and magical types, with different classes being suited to different types.

While Druid and its related content are currently very popular, it's also important to pay attention to other classes and their weapon usage. For example, bows remain one of the best weapon choices for agile characters.

Based on this, this guide will introduce you to how to craft bows in PoE 2 after the release of Patch 0.4.0, as well as the off-hand item that enhances bows: quivers.

Bows In Path Of Exile 2

There are now over 20 types of bows available in PoE 2. You can decide which one to craft and use based on your character level and the bow's attack stats.

Generally, bows are two-handed weapons that focus on mobility and ranged combat, with an overall style emphasizing dexterity and agility. While their base damage is usually lower than other two-handed weapons, this can be compensated for by adding a quiver.

Among all the base and Ascendancy classes, those that commonly use this weapon and its related builds include Deadeye, Amazon, Mage, and more. If you like any of these classes, be sure to remember the content of this guide!

Quivers In Path Of Exile 2

Adding this item significantly improves your bow's offensive capabilities, especially in terms of accuracy and critical strike chance. Like bows, each quiver type has its own level requirements and buffs, which you can choose from.

• Blunt Quiver
• Fire Quiver
• Broadhead Quiver
• Penetrating Quiver
• Primed Quiver
• Sacral Quiver
• Serrated Quiver
• Toxic Quiver
• Two-Point Quiver
• Visceral Quiver
• Volant Quiver

How To Craft Bows?

First, it's important to know that crafting isn't the only way to obtain weapons in Path of Exile 2. You can also get them by farming enemies and bosses, or by trading and gambling with NPCs.

However, weapon drops from farming enemies and gambling are random, and the types of gear available for sale are quite limited. Therefore, crafting your own weapons is a more reliable way to obtain high-quality bows.

In fact, crafting weapons in PoE 2 doesn't mean starting completely from scratch. Instead, it involves processing low-rarity weapons that can be easily obtained in normal combat, upgrading them or adding affixes to make them more powerful.

This process requires many types of PoE 2 currency. For example, Orb of Transmutation can increase the rarity of bows, and Exalted Orb can add a random affix to a rare weapon.

Therefore, the final form of your initial bow depends on the types and quantities of currency you possess, and currency farming requires you to constantly map or complete quests and adventures.

For bows, the most important thing is to maximize their critical strike chance. For this, Exalted Orbs and Divine Orbs are heavily consumed currencies.

After an Exalted Orb adds an affix to a bow, a Divine Orb will randomly reroll the values ​​of all random affixes on the bow. To maximize critical strike chance, you'll need at least 15 to 25 Divine Orbs.

How To Craft Quivers?

The basic mechanism of quiver crafting is the same as other weapons: first obtain an initial quiver, then consume specific currency to improve its various attributes.

Initially, you can keep picking up white (normal rarity) quivers until you get one with good affixes. Generally, Primed Quiver and Visceral Quiver are good base choices.

For quivers, base damage, attack speed, and critical strike chance affixes are all desirable. If the quiver you pick up has one good affix and one bad affix, you can use an Exalted Orb to roll for a new, better affix.

Ideally, the prefix should be fixed damage or increased bow damage, and the suffix should be increased skill levels, critical strike chance, or attack speed.

If you only have one good affix, it's ideal if it appears on the suffix; if it appears on the prefix, the probability of rolling an excellent result is lower. If Exalted Orbs roll undesirable affixes, it's best to replace them immediately using Chaos Orbs.

Summary

Whether it's a bow or a quiver, the underlying logic of crafting remains the same, and the most important aspect of the process is continuously collecting various types of currency.

Because both rolling new affixes and modifying the values ​​of existing affixes are random processes, it's difficult to guarantee obtaining a perfect bow or quiver in just one or two attempts. Therefore, theoretically, there is no upper limit to the currency consumption.

However, it's important not to become overly fixated on crafting. After all, currency farming is not an easy process. You only need to ensure that your current bow and quiver meet your combat needs.

In fact, once you've mastered the basic mechanics, if you change your playstyle and try other weapon types, you can use a similar approach to upgrade your new weapons, thereby making your entire build and character stronger.

We hope this guide will provide you with practical and effective help in playing the new PoE 2 league. Thank you for reading.

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Diablo 4 announced at 2025 TGA that Paladin class would be launched in season 11, which brought surprises to players, and Path of Exile 2 patch 0.4.0 was not to be outdone either. In addition to the previously announced new class Druid, the official also announced a new Ascendancy class, Disciple of Varashta, without any warning.

Disciple of Varashta is a Sorceress Ascendancy class. Its gameplay is mainly summoning, and it may be the strongest summoning Ascendancy currently. It has many ways to play, and today we will mainly introduce the gameplay based on Sand Djinn.

Disciple Of Varashta Overview

Disciple of Varashta has three main summons that you can manipulate to cast spells. They are very powerful, but they play differently from a traditional summoning build, and it is more like a spellcaster build.

• Ruzhan, the Blazing Sword: A pure output Djinn that can burst out with powerful damage.
• Kelari, the Tainted Sands: It can not only release spells to cause damage, but also apply a shield to the character.
• Navira, the Last Mirage: A support-oriented Djinn that provides health regeneration and freezes enemies.

Players can choose which Djinn to fight together and order them to use specific skills. Each Ascension talent point grants a Command Skill.

Djinn are invulnerable. Even if all the player's other summoned army dies, the monsters alone can easily clear the map and kill the boss.

You need to increase the damage by stacking summon damage, command skill-related talents, critical strikes, and support gems (Support Gems). All skills of each monster share the same set of auxiliary gem links, and universal damage support gems work well.

Sand Djinn Disciple Of Varashta Build

Advantages And Disadvantages

This build not only has powerful burst damage, but also has a huge energy shield pool. Its ability to regenerate energy shield builds is unparalleled, energy shield regeneration activates extremely quickly, and the farming map experience is smooth and enjoyable.

However, if you pursue maximum damage, Boss battles require frequent button presses, high-intensity operations, and no particularly fast movement methods.

Djinn Select

This build mainly uses Flame Djinn and Sand Djinn to fight together to cause extremely high damage. Additional skill slots for each monster are unlocked at character levels 40, 65, and 90.

Kelari, The Tainted Sands

Its base can cause physical damage, has a high base critical hit rate and additional critical hit damage bonus, and can apply multi-layer critical hit vulnerability effect.

Kelari's Brutality

Djinn throws a row of blades at the cursor, which explodes after a short delay. Store 2 times of use. Both clear map and single target damage are good. It is recommended that you use it before bursting into a combo to apply the critical vulnerability debuff.

Kelari's Deception

Creates an area-of-effect explosion at the cursor, leaving a short-lived clone behind. Store 3 times of use. Continuous use will cause 50% more damage each time, and each surviving clone will copy the explosion effect. Casting 3 times in a row can produce up to 5 explosions. This is one of the most damaging skills in the build and can significantly reduce the boss's health.

Ruzhan, The Blazing Sword

Whenever the player uses a damaging skill, Ruzhan will automatically attack near the cursor, causing moderate damage and applying a basic Exposure effect.

Ruzhan's Brand

The brand is attached to the enemy. Up to 3 of them can exist at the same time and can be stacked on the same target. They will automatically explode after 3 seconds. The damage is acceptable but the priority is low. It is only recommended for players who like extreme active play. It can be cast three times quickly between skills to supplement the damage or clear out dense monster groups.

Ruzhan's Trap

Throws a sword at the cursor, then generates 8 randomly located runes on the ground. If an enemy steps on the rune, a static flame whirlwind will rise that lasts for 4 seconds. The damage of multiple cyclones can be stacked. By casting it close to a wall or in an enclosed area, you can narrow the rune generation area and make the whirlwind more concentrated. This is an excellent map-clearing skill and the single-target damage is also good.

Skill Gems And Gear

• Ruzhan, the Blazing Sword: Bidding II, Muster, Long Fuse II, Hulking Minions. Magnified Area II.
• Kelari, the Tainted Sands: Bidding II, Brutality III, Muster, Hulking Minions, Heft.
• Skeletal Reaver: Fire Attunement, Muster, Feeding Frenzy II, Heft, Immolate.
• Skeletal Storm Mage: Shock, Overcharge, Muster, Feeding Frenzy II, Rapid Casting II.
• Skeletal Sniper: Fire Attunement, Muster, Feeding Frenzy II, Heft, Immolate.
• Skeletal Frost Mage: Rapid Casting II, Muster, Minion Mastery, Multishot II, Projectile Acceleration III.
• Skeletal Arsonist: Fire Attunement, Muster, Multishot II, Feeding Frenzy II, Heft.
• Skeletal Cleric: Meat Shield II, Last Gasp, Rapid Casting II, Minion Mastery.
• Skeletal Brute: Muster, Fire Attunement, Feeding Frenzy II, Heft, Immolate.
• Elemental Weakness: Heightened Curse, Efficiency II, Focused Curse, Magnified Area II, Rapid Casting II.
• Frost Bomb: Potent Exposure, Overabundance I, Spell Echo, Cooldown Recovery II, Short Fuse II.
• Skeletal Warriors: Culling Strike II, Hulking Minions, Muster, Fire Attunement.

Since Ascendancy cannot be performed until the second act, you still need to upgrade in the normal way in the early stage. After obtaining Disciple of Varashta class, the talent tree requires more options to increase the life of the summoned object.

There are no special requirements for equipment. You can even choose all rare equipment, as long as their affixes include increasing the damage of the summons or the level of the summons. However, you can prepare a set of weapons with talent gems that increase the minion area of effect to obtain a larger clearing range. Djinn are very powerful on their own, but the more POE 2 currency you invest in them, the more damage they do.

How To Farm The Map?

Ruzhan's Trap, keep moving and let the enemy trigger the rune. Even if there may be fish that slip through the net, your army of summons will clean them up.

In the boss battle, the exposure effects of Elemental Weakness and Frost Bomb are maintained. If Kelari's Deception has 3 charges, cast it three times in a row to cause a huge burst. Ruzhan's Trap and Kelari's Brutality are both served after cooling.

If you have a lot of Spirit, you can use it to summon Skeletal Reavers and occasionally press Enrage to get a damage boost.

This is just one way to play Disciple of Varashta. You can also play it without playing a pure summoning build and combine it with other spells, as long as they give you a comfortable experience in the campaign.

Path of Exile 2 Patch 0.4.0 introduces the new Druid class, which features three transformation forms, each with its own unique skills and combat style. You can switch between these forms at any time during combat.

Of these three forms, the bear form excels at utilizing Rage resource to increase damage output and create synergistic effects between multiple skills. This form also possesses tank-like characteristics, allowing it to withstand damage.

Based on this, we will introduce a build that focuses on transforming into a bear and creating fissures to damage enemies in combat - Raging Fissure Bear Build.

Raging Fissure Bear Build Overview

The bear form of Druid is characterized by its slow speed but extremely high defense and survivability, making it suitable for melee combat. Although it's not as fast as the wolf or wyvern forms, with the right build, it can clear groups of enemies with AoE damage.

For example, Raging Fissure Bear Build is crafted based on one of the key bear form skills, Fury of the Mountain.

Fissure Warrior playstyle has always been quite powerful in PoE 2, but now the bear form combined with this skill can achieve similar, or even better, results.

This skill unlocks at Tier 5 and requires equipping Animal Talismans. You will transform into a bear and repeatedly pound the ground to create lava fissures.

These fissures convert 80 physical damage into fire damage, granting 3 Rage for each enemy hit and creating another fissure, with a maximum of 12 fissures active simultaneously.

Due to the accumulation of Rage, this makes your attacks much more powerful than normal attacks in bear form, as the multiple fissures allow you to create three branching fissures with each ground pound, and Rage generated by the fissures triggers totems.

Other Bear Form Skills

While Fury of the Mountain is the foundation, it needs to be used in conjunction with other bear form skills to meet your damage output needs. These mainly include:

• Maul: As the main attack method in bear form, it performs a powerful sweeping attack, accumulating Rage with each enemy hit.
• Furious Slam: Creates a shockwave by slamming the ground, and can consume Rage to increase the shockwave's power, leaving behind jagged ground. This ground can interact with other skills to deal additional damage.
• Rampage: This skill guides you forward, continuously slamming the ground, suitable for clearing groups of enemies and for quick movement. Consuming Rage can also extend its duration.
• Ferocious Roar: As a Warcry skill, it instantly generates Rage when there are enemies nearby and empowers subsequent attacks to break through enemy armor. It can also be triggered in human form by equipping a supporting gem.
• Walking Calamity: As the ultimate skill in bear form, it triggers when your Rage reaches its maximum, summoning a meteor shower that deals fire damage to enemies and restores Rage over its duration.

Overall, Raging Fissure Bear Build relies on slam and fissure damage. Therefore, in each battle, you should use Fury of the Mountain at least once or twice, then sequentially cast Maul and Furious Slam as a combo.

Properly Combining Human Form Skills

After transforming into a bear, you can still use your human form Druid skills, and they are an important part of crafting any Druid build. For Raging Fissure Bear Build, the essential human skill is Volcano.

The skill's damage itself isn't impressive, but after using Fury of the Mountain or Rampage, Volcano can help accumulate damage and ignite enemies, making them more susceptible to your sustained damage.

More importantly, if you later unlock Invigorating Hate passive node, it transforms Volcano into a healing skill, restoring your health by consuming Rage, 1% for every point of Rage consumed.

Considering that you will constantly accumulate Rage, either actively or passively, while using this build, this passive node will significantly enhance your survivability and self-healing capabilities as a bear, allowing you to survive even in boss battles.

How To Choose Your Ascendancy Class?

Druid has two Ascendancy Classes: Shaman and Oracle. Here, we recommend unlocking the former, because Shaman has two passive abilities that are very important for accumulating and using Rage: Druidic Champion and Furious Wellspring.

As we've emphasized multiple times in the previous sections, Raging Fissure Bear Build is a build that relies on Rage. Druidic Champion can increase your spell damage by accumulating Rage, and Furious Wellspring helps restore the consumed Rage.

It's worth noting that to fully utilize the advantage of increased spell damage, we recommend equipping Tornado skill gem.

This skill creates a tornado that continuously damages surrounding enemies. You can also utilize projectiles to collide with the tornado as it moves forward to deal even more damage.

If the tornado covers elemental ground, it will absorb nearby debuffs for 4 seconds and apply that effect to enemies within the tornado. This is also expected to work very well in conjunction with the wyvern form.

How To Choose Gear?

Since the skill switching and usage suggestions are already quite complex and comprehensive, this build doesn't have very high gear requirements, especially in the early stages of the league.

Of course, if you have the time to farm rarer gear, or any PoE 2 currency that allows you to modify gear affixes, we recommend choosing gear according to the following guidelines:

• Weapons: Prioritize Talismans with fixed damage and attack speed bonuses.
• Armor: While striving to stack defensive attributes, also consider your elemental weaknesses. Having energy shields would be even better.
• Other: Anything that increases damage output or elemental resistance is good.

That's all the information about Raging Fissure Bear Build that we have for you today. If the bear form is your preferred playstyle, then why not try Raging Fissure Bear Build using our guide? You're sure to gain something from it!

Path of Exile 2's class and skill combinations are incredibly complex, resulting in numerous playstyles. Unfortunately, summoner builds have consistently lacked a place among the top-tier builds.

While it's unclear whether the new Druid class can change this, each league has a dedicated group of players researching minion builds. Below, we'll examine the performance of minion builds in Patch 0.3.0 and the adjustments in Patch 0.4.0 to see which ones will perform best in Fate of the Vaal league.

Tier S

Spectre Builds

Since skills in Path of Exile 2 aren't tied to classes, you can choose either Spectre Infernalist build or Spectre Shaman build.

Of all summoning skills, Spectre performed best in Patch 0.3.0, allowing you to enslave Spectres to fight for you. The strongest Spectre was Frozen Mandibles. Unfortunately, it was removed in Patch 0.4. As compensation, the developers stated they will buff some summon variants.

Therefore, as long as Spectre builds aren't significantly nerfed, you can use Powered Zealot Spectre to clear monsters and single enemies, or Death Knight Spectres to deal with single enemies.

Ascendancy Recommends

If you're only focusing on the early game, Spectre Shaman has a greater advantage because its Sacred Flow talent can provide a large amount of Spirit by sacrificing charm slots. Thanks to the changes in Act 2 quest Valley of Titans, Shaman can obtain a belt that grants +2 charm slots at lower levels, allowing for a large amount of Spirit early on.

Later in the game, you can respec to Oracle, as Oracle talent tree contains many summon-related nodes, providing strong late-game defense or damage.

Alternatively, you can choose the classic Infernalist build from patch 0.3.0, or Ritualist and Lich using Evergrasping Ring. Shaman and Infernalist may perform similarly with a moderate PoE 2 currency investment, but Lich and Oracle are likely the strongest with top-tier gear.

Tame Beast Builds

This build requires you to control Tamed Beast by switching weapons and using Infernal Legion auxiliary gem to deal area-of-effect fire damage.

Patch 0.4.0 did not significantly nerf its damage, and while the reduction in high-density maps may diminish its value for clearing, Tamed Beast builds remain consistently strong in single-target damage and overall performance, its strength proportional to your PoE 2 currency investment.

Ascendancy Recommends

The energy shield nerf in patch 0.4.0 may make Titan Tamed Beast better, but you can also choose to start as Shaman and transition to Oracle later, again due to the summon life and defense nodes included in the talents, and the higher your summons‘ HP, the higher their damage.

Tier A

Skeleton Archer Ritualist Build

This build requires Ritualist to equip Evergrasping Rings, granting summons additional Chaos that also affects enemies within range. It typically requires Chaos Inoculation to mitigate the additional Chaos damage taken.

This build performs exceptionally well with high investment, but it's not a comfortable early-game choice. Upgrading with summons is not recommended without transitional gear; other skills are usually needed for early game progression, followed by a gear swap to reach full potential later.

In Patch 0.4.0, any summoner build relying heavily on Spirits was affected by reduced reservation efficiency and weakened Relics. However, this build, primarily reliant on the ring's damage boost, was relatively less affected.

Tier B

Skeletal Reaver Builds

Skeletal Reavers gain attack speed and damage by stacking rage. Patch 0.4.0 fixed this skill's description; now, its attack speed bonus only applies when they are enrage-enhanced.

The challenge was ensuring Skeletal Reavers survived after enrage was active. Tecrod's Revenge support gem enhancement solved this problem. It allows summons to survive longer after their health reaches 0, increasing this time from 10 seconds to 20 seconds. Dialla's Desire support gem can improve skill quality, further increasing rage effects, which might potentially lead to higher damage.

Ascendancy Recommends

This skill gem can be used by Titans, Ritualists, Shamans, and Liches, but its effectiveness depends on which class allows Skeletal Reavers to stack rage more efficiently.

Unearth Raise Zombie Builds

This build primarily relies on summoned enhanced zombies that consume Power Charge. Its damage bonus has changed from a fixed 100% to a dynamic value that scales with skill level, meaning high-level zombies have significant damage potential.

You can use Unearth to quickly generate summons for clearing maps. When single-target damage is needed, summon 10-12 enhanced zombies for burst damage. This build is completely unaffected by the reduction in reservation efficiency, but it heavily relies on Power Charge.

The best method is to use new Lineage support gems, which generate one Power Charge every 4 seconds. Additionally, Profane Ritual can consume corpses to generate critical strike orbs.

Sacrifice aura can treat permanently resurrectable summons as corpses, consume them with Profane Ritual, and then resurrect them with Skeletal Cleric, allowing you to continuously generate Power Charge.

Ascendancy Recommends

For this build, Ritualist is the best ascendancy choice because it doesn't rely on a lot of spirit and benefits from Evergrasping Rings and Uul-Netol's Embrace. The problem with this build is that it's relatively cumbersome to operate, and the summoned creatures are temporary and cannot exist indefinitely. Furthermore, using Raise Zombie is very mana-intensive, so you need to be mindful of your resource consumption.

The above minion builds are just basic concepts. You can research how to increase minion damage in new leagues, and perhaps you can even create a stronger build.

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.

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.