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Among all the new content brought by POE 2 Dawn of the Hunt, in addition to the new basic class Huntress, there are 5 new Ascendancy classes, and 2 of them belong to Huntress, namely Amazon and Ritualist.

Although they belong to the same Huntress, they are not only different in combat style, but also slightly higher in usage rate than Ritualist because Amazon is stronger. However, this does not mean that Ritualist is not worth utilizing. In fact, the right builds can make it invincible in POE 2 endgame.

Based on this, we will tell you how to complete most of the game content through Bleed Ritualist Build based on the introduction of this Ascendancy class.

Introduction To Ritualist

As shown in the game trailer and other related pictures, just from the appearance you will feel that Ritualist definitely has that kind of dark and terrible power. In fact, she uses the powers of animal sacrifices and plagues to show her control of life and energy.

In combat, Ritualist can cast blood magic spells to damage enemies and drain their health. Specific exclusive abilities include:

• As the Whispers Demand: Reduces 20% of its maximum health through sacrifice to gain a random monster modifier (only one can be obtained at a time).
• Mind Phylacteries: consumes 25% of maximum mana to trigger insufficiently charged charms.
• Corrupted Lifeforce: Gain the skill Blood Boil.
• As the Whispers Ask: Gain the skill Ritual Sacrifice.
• Intricate Sigils: +1 charm slot, +20% charm charges.
• Unfurled Finger: +1 ring slot.
• Mystic Attunement: Bonus +25% after equipping Rings and Amulets.

Overall, the strengths of this Ascendancy class are mainly in damage output and reliable survivability, but it is also more dependent on the role of gear. So if you choose to play Ritualist, it is best to buy POE 2 currency to increase the rarity of your equipment or get more modifiers.

Bleed Ritualist Build

Before entering Act 2 and unlocking Ascendancy class mechanism, you can only play Huntress in POE 2 in the most basic way. Under this premise, the main operation to cause damage to the enemy is to press Parry to get Frenzy charges, which is a thankless way.

So you can play Huntress with bleed type builds at the beginning, so that after unlocking Ritualist, you can combine the two to create a Bleed Ritualist Build, thereby improving the efficiency of clearing monsters and killing bosses.

It is worth mentioning that Huntress itself is relatively fragile in the early stage of the game, but bleed type builds can solve the enemy before you are hurt by extremely fast attack speed, circumventing this defect from another angle.

In this way, you can easily complete the main content of Act 1 and Act 2 through bleed builds, and utilize the new build brought by Ritualist to smoothly enter the endgame and Cruel mode, and finally complete the game.

Bleed Ritualist Build In Endgame

As you know, almost all character builds available in ARPG are centered on active skills, and are crafted with passive skills, gear and other items that can enhance active skills and class characteristics.

For Path of Exile 2 Bleed Ritualist Build, first you need to gradually unlock more skill gems and support gems that can be matched with them through adventures in the first three acts, and as the build is improved and upgraded, you can equip them more selectively to make the build more concise and refined.

After you unlock Ritualist, you need to unlock those Ascendancy nodes in Ascendancy system that can play the class skills or abilities to further enhance Bleed Ritualist Build.

Of course, the choice of passive skills is also important. For this build, those passives that can increase your agility, evasion rating and attack speed are all good. Finally, when you get to the endgame, your Bleed Ritualist Build should include the following:

Skill Gems

• Spearfield
• Rapid Assault
• Herald of Blood
• Bloodhound’s Mark
• Blood Boil

Support Gems

• Comorbidity
• Rearm
• Close Combat
• Concentrated Effect
• Heavy Swing
• Heft
• Bursting Plague
• Reach
• Magnified Effect

Key Passives

• Blur
• Primal Instinct
• Escape Velocity
• Lasting Toxins
• Fast Acting Toxins
• Deterioration
• Blood Letting
• Cruel Methods

Gear And Weapons

• Armor with good resistance and high evasion rating
• Spear with high physical damage
• Ring with mana and health regeneration

Utilize Tips For This Build

The way you start to damage enemies with this build in early game is casting Rake, then combined it with Herald of Blood is triggered to make some enemies explode after killing them, damaging other enemies in a wider range.

After unlocking Rapid Assault skill, you can use it as your main damage skill, and use it with Spearfield and Thunderous Leap to attack higher-level enemies and bosses. As long as the build elements are properly coordinated, you will definitely win!

That’s all the information about Bleed Ritualist Build. Although we directly tell you what the final form of this build is, you will still encounter difficulties in the process of crafting it, and you must overcome them on your own!

Finally, I need to remind you that if you are a fan of the entire Path of Exile series, then remember to watch POE 3.26 league’s live broadcast of the press conference (or the live playback)! More new content is waiting for you to learn!

many summons have been added in Path Of Exile 2 Dawn Of The Hunt, which is wonderful news for Witch players, because just skeleton mages or hell creatures are far from enough to satisfy a summoner class lover.

Raise Spectres is a new skill of Witch in Dawn Of The Hunt. Witch can release it on a corpse to summon Spectres as her own summon. This new skill adds hundreds of potential summons to Witch at one time, and you can turn almost any ordinary monster you defeat into your summon.

Unlike ordinary spellcaster characters, as a summoner, Witch needs a lot of Spirit to maintain her army, so no matter what you plan to summon, you’d better prepare equipment that can provide enough Spirit. If not, buy POE 2 currency and exchange the required equipment with other players.

Raise Spectres Requirements:

• Level: 8
• Mana Requirements: 38
• Requirements: Level 26, 61 intelligence

Players cannot get this skill at the beginning. You can use Uncut Skill gems to unlock this skill in Act 2.

No.1 Vaal Guard (Grenade)

Spirit: 50

Location: The Ziggurat Refuge, Utzaal, and Library of Kamasa in Act 3

Features:

• Slows down enemy movement
• Applies fire exposure to enemies
• Throws grenades to cause fire damage

Vaal Guard has different versions. They use bows or two-handed weapons. They consume different Spirits. However, Vaal Guard using grenades has the lowest take but the highest damage, so it is the best choice.

No.2 Faridun Impaler

Spirit: 120

Location: The Spires of Deshar in Act 2

Features:

• Deals physical damage
• Can cause bleeding
• Attacks with projectiles

Faridun Impaler is extremely ferocious, and summoning her takes you 120 Spirit, which is a sign of her power. She is a melee DPS that can cause bleeding to enemies. But don’t think of her as a tank, she can’t take much damage.

No.3 Frost Wraith

Spirit: 80

Location: Cemetery of the Eternals In Act 1

Features:

• Has a high-energy shield
• Deals cold damage
• Can cause explosions
• Attacks with projectiles

You can encounter Frost Wraith in the first act, and her abilities are very versatile, able to take damage, slow enemies, and do decent damage. After you get her in the first act, you can farm currency without any danger.

No.4 Priest Of The Chalice

Spirit: 80

Location: Expedition Logbook Maps

Features:

• Cleaving attack
• Deals cold damage
• Quite fast in moving
• A melee-focused ghost

Priest of the Chalice is the evolved version of Frost Wraith. They are stronger and do more damage, but you can only find them on Expedition Logbook map.

No.5 Doryani’s Elite (Lightning)

Spirit: 70

Location: The Black Chambers In Act 3

Features:

High burst range

• Deals lightning damage
• Attacks with slow orbs
• Attacks with projectiles

Doryani’s Elite deals a huge lightning damage. With the chain effect of lightning, Doryani’s Elite can help you quickly clear out groups of enemies and is a great helper for farming POE 2 currency.

No.6 Cultist Archer

Spirit: 70

Location: Freythorn In Act 1

Features:

• A ghost that focuses on area-of-effect attacks, it can fire AoE skills that deal chaos damage to enemies.

The arrows fired by Cultist Archer deal chaos damage to the area of effect, and they only take 70 Spirit, which means you can always summon an army of Cultist Archers to slam your enemies.

No.7 Regurgitating Vulture

Spirit: 70

Location: Deshar In Act 2

Features:

• Deals chaos damage
• Can cause poison
• Uses projectile attacks

Regurgitating Vulture creates a poisonous cloud that deals chaos damage to enemies that enter it. It only takes 70 Spirit, and even if it is killed, you can continue to summon one to maintain the poisonous cloud.

No.8 Faridun Spearwoman

Spirit: 60

Location: The Spires of Deshar In Act 2

Features:

• Deals physical damage
• Fast attack speed
• High damage output

Their ranged attacks seem pretty good, but they can be a bit slow to move. As you level up their skills, they’ll get faster at defeating monsters.

No.9 Azak Fledgling

Spirit: 50

Location: Azak Bog in Act 3

Features:

• Fires 3 projectiles in a row
• Projectiles are extremely fast
• Physical and poisonous damage

Azak Fledgling only takes 50 Spirit, so you can easily summon a large group of them, which can effectively make up for their lack of damage. And their projectiles are very fast, and they can spray poison and penetrate armor.

No.10 Quill Crab

Spirit: 90

Location: Untainted Paradise

Features:

• Powerful physical and cold damage
• Excellent spread and scatter attacks
• Fast projectile speed
• Can freeze enemies

Their biggest drawback is that they are slow in moving. They are undoubtedly very powerful against a single enemy. But they are a little more difficult against multiple enemies. In addition, they can control enemies, making it easier for your other summons to attack.

Although there are over than 100 Spectres in the game, most of them are inferior to the normal summons of Witch. Therefore, if you want to play this skill, it is best to know which Spectres are the most useful first to avoid wasting your Spirit.

In addition, you can use unique items such as Queen’s Decree or Primordial Staff to enhance your Spectres. These unique items are less popular, so they will not consume too many of your Divine Orbs.

Whether you adopt new builds or new tactics in Path of Exile 2, the ultimate goal is to get more loot. The currency and gear included in the loot are important props for you to upgrade and pass the level, so the more the better.

On the other hand, in addition to strengthening your own characters to improve combat efficiency, is it possible for duo party or even multi-player teams to increase the fun of the game and get more loot?

Currently, POE 2 supports Cross-Play on platforms including PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One, and the team can accommodate up to 6 people. On this basis, we will explore the possibility of getting more loot by different team numbers and battle settings.

Factors Affecting Combat

As a reference benchmark, you need to conduct two POE 2 adventures with the same other combat settings, but different number of people, so that you can more fairly evaluate whether team combat is more effective. The following are recommended settings.

Builds To Utilize

Since your goal is to compare loot drop rates, it’s best to resolve battles as quickly as possible to get data and avoid wasting time on unnecessary challenges.

Based on this, Lightning Spear Build would be a good choice, as it performs reliably in terms of both damage output and attack speed, and is also currently a relatively common POE 2 build, so your friends who will be testing with you later should also be able to master it.

Maps And Related Modifiers

Of course, if you are testing and comparing in Atlas, you must choose the same endgame map and modifiers. There are no restrictions on the specific map you choose, just choose a moderately difficult one, but Lost Towers is more recommended.

Then don’t forget to buy POE 2 currency to exchange for enough Precursor Tablets, because this map modifier can be placed in an empty slot to exert a unique effect on the map, making it more worth farming. Or you can choose another map with at least a 15% to 20% monster appearance rate and utilize Distilled Paranoia to enhance yourself.

Atlas Tree Settings

As an important endgame mechanism in Path of Exile 2, there are many nodes in Atlas Tree that can be unlocked, and each node will have a different impact on your mapping progress after being unlocked.

For this test, you can prioritize unlocking nodes related to Breach and that can increase the probability of rare monsters appearing. This way you can farm more loot while conducting the evaluation.

Notes On Two-Player Games

After entering the duo party battle through the above settings, you need to pay extra attention to the fact that if you want to ensure that the loot obtained by the team can be applied to all team members, the distance between your characters must be maintained within a fixed range.

To be honest, this is a bit difficult to operate because it is difficult to notice this when the battle is intense. For this reason, you and your teammates may try to use the mini-map as a reference and do as much as possible.

How Did The Test Result Work?

Considering that you may not have time to complete all of this, we have conducted tests in advance. According to the results, the drop of currency and gear varies under different combat numbers.

Drop Rates Of Different Types Of Currency

First of all, it must be said that from the overall loot drop situation, the efficiency of two-player combat is indeed higher than that of single-player. For currency, the currency types obtained in the two expeditions mainly include Divine Orbs, Orb of Annulment, and Chaos Orbs.

In contrast, the number of the above three currencies dropped in duo party combat is about 80% higher than that of single-player, and the drop rate of other orbs has increased by about 30-50%.

But it is worth noting that these growth rates are overall, and you will eventually need to share these currencies with your partner! In this way, even if the overall drop rate increases, the loot you get through sharing is not as much as when you are alone.

Unique Item Drop Rate

In contrast, the drop rate of gear mainly composed of unique items will drop more in duo party premise, and the number of most unique items will almost double. If you share equally, your loot amount will still be considerable.

Is It Worth Teaming Up In Two?

Honestly, it depends on what you want to pursue in POE 2. If you plan to focus on unique item farming, the overall efficiency of duo party combat is indeed higher, but if you want to get currency more, it is better to choose to fight alone, unless you and your teammates do not enable currency sharing.

From the perspective of game experience, the main drawback of two-player combat is what has been mentioned. You must keep a proper distance between you and your teammates, otherwise you will lose rewards.

Because everyone’s gaming habits and the network conditions of the utilization are different, it is difficult to say whether you will encounter a situation where one party is too slow/too fast, or one party has network delay or even disconnection during the battle. Once it happens, both people will suffer losses!

So there is no fixed answer to whether POE 2’s two-player team gameplay is worth experiencing. It depends on the ideas and needs of you and your teammates. But from the perspective of loot data alone, it is still worth a try.

Or if you have time, you can also form a full (6-person) team for testing under the premise of the battle settings we gave. Further increase in the number of people may provide more fun and loot!

Path of Exile 2 Patch 0.2.1 will save the reputation of Dawn of the Hunt. We all know that when Dawn of the Hunt was first released, the developers made poor adjustments, which led to the fact that this update was rejected by many players.

Patch 0.2.1 is the remedy for Dawn of the Hunt, even though it has been nearly two months since its announcement. The update of Patch 0.2.1 has been slightly delayed by a week and may not be officially launched until next week, but the developers have already informed us of the content they will update in advance.

Unique Items

In terms of unique items, unique item drops will be more common, helping players to build a relatively strong build in the early stages of the game, while defeating Rogue Exiles will drop more unique items.

Some of the weaker unique items will be reworked, and many new unique items will be added. It can be said that in Patch 0.2.1, every player will get a lot of unique items. However, the truly powerful unique items not only have high level and attribute requirements, but are also very scarce. Besides farming bosses and endgame maps, the way to get them is to buy POE 2 currency and then trade with other players.

Learn More: What Is The Update Content Of Path Of Exile 2 Patch 0.2.1? - Endgame, Maps And Expedition Log

New Socketable Items

• 22 Runes
• 14 Soul Cores
• 7 Talismans

Although a part of these new items are basically unobtainable in the early game, the developers say that some of them can bring amazing improvements to players’ stats, and they will replace ordinary socket items in the later stages of the game.

Runes and Talismans will appear in the drops of world monsters. 22 Runes will only appear as drops and cannot be upgraded through other runes, and 14 Soul Cores come from Trial of Chaos Ultimatum encounters.

The developers have announced some items:

Hedgewitch Assandra’s Rune of Wisdom

• Can be socketed on a Wand or Staff.
• All spell skill levels +1.

This rune is very powerful and can bring you all-round improvements. Your projectiles, your minions, and your melee skills will all be upgraded by one level. Even if you don’t have a splendid weapon, Hedgewitch Assandra’s Rune of Wisdom will bring your damage to the next level, but you have to watch your cost.

Hedgewitch Assandra’s Rune of Wisdom is definitely one of the best runes in patch 0.2.0, and there will be a lot of players willing to trade currency for it.

Farrul’s Rune Of The Chase

• Can be embedded in Boots.
• Increases movement speed by 5%.

Increases movement speed, this effect is nothing to say. Movement speed is important for all classes. Maybe there will be a rune that can increase attack speed on the unreleased runes, and the two can work together.

The Greatwolf’s Rune Of Willpower

• Can be embedded in Body Armours.
• Transfers 10% of the damage from health loss to mana loss.

This is also a pretty wonderful effect, and if you regenerate mana quickly, then you basically have 10% damage reduction permanently. Body Armours have multiple slots, assign one slot to it and you still have slots for more runes.

All three of the above runes are pretty good, and their effects are not OP, because they are all dropped in the world, not from the boss’s loot, so you should be able to get them easily. It may drop after you kill the boss or appear in any treasure chest.

The sooner you get them, the more fun the game will be, otherwise after level 90, these items will not make much sense.

Tacati’s Soul Core Of Affliction

• Can be embedded in Helmets.
• Enemies cursed by you have 8% lower chaos resistance.

Soul Core is basically something that players can only get in the endgame. Tacati’s Soul Core of Affliction can reduce the enemy’s chaos resistance, which is usually used with poison builds.

If you have several items that can reduce the opponent’s chaos resistance, your poison will reach a terrible level. This playstyle is not necessarily OP, but it is fun.

Talisman Of Thruldana

• Can be embedded on the Martial weapon.
• Poison duration is reduced by one tenth, but it can be used to poison the enemy once more.

The really interesting things are coming. Talisman comes from monsters empowered by Azmerian Wisps. This may indicate that there will be new Azmerian Wisps in patch 0.2.1.

It makes the poison duration become 75% of the original, but allows poison to stack one more layer. In other words, it increases poison damage by 50%. Talisman of Thruldana may be one of the essential items in poison builds, which can be combined with Tacati’s Soul Core of Affliction.

The above are the new items that have been announced so far. They are obviously not all the same rarity. After all, some items that look more powerful are needed for the long-term growth of players, so they will not appear randomly in the drops of ordinary monsters. They are not too precious, and you can easily exchange them with currency.

There are still many items that have not been announced, including other runes and new unique items. The changes in patch 0.2.1 will definitely greatly improve the player experience.

As a loot-oriented ARPG series, both Path of Exile 1 and 2 have their own huge network of items. Each game item has its own role and has special synergies with other specific items, which can provide different benefits for your battle.

Among all Path of Exile 2 items, unique items should be one of the rarest categories, and Demigod’s Virtue is even more special because it is a unique item that can only be obtained through race events.

Path of Exile has always had a tradition of holding race events, and each event will reward the precious Demigod’s Virtue unique item to those who rank at the top of the competition. The last POE 2 race event was in March. It doesn’t matter if you missed it or lost at that time, because the new race event has begun!

With that in mind, let’s first explain why Demigod’s Virtue is worth having, and how to play the May race event to get it and other rewards.

Demigod’s Virtue Unique Item

This item is also known as Demigod unique or Demigod. As the only Golden Visage helmet in the game, it has a 25% increased rarity of items found Virtuous attribute, which is why players are desperately trying to get a high ranking in race events.

While winning a race event is the only way to get this item, you can also get it or sell it through micro-transactions. It is worth noting that after the transaction, all additional attributes of the item will be permanently destroyed at the seller’s place, leaving only the special visual effect.

How To Get It?

As the only way to get the next round of Demigod’s Virtue, you can only get this item if you are the first in your class in this race event! It has to be said that this is indeed a hard task, because the popularity of Path of Exile 2 is destined to have tens of thousands of players competing with you.

Competition Time

The first game of this round of race event started at 1 pm PDT on May 25th, and two more games will be held later, at the following times:

• June 1st at 1 pm PDT
• June 8th at 1 pm PDT

Considering the time differences caused by time zones, if you don’t want to miss the game, it is best to mark the corresponding game time of your time zone in advance and set a reminder.

Competition Rules

Including Huntress added to the game in patch 0.2.0, there are currently 7 optional classes in POE 2. In the end, the first place in each class can get a Demigod’s Virtue as the winner, which means that there will be 7 final winners in the end.

As for the way to select the winner, it is the same as the last race event. You need to defeat the boss Doryani in Act 3. The faster you are, the higher your ranking will be.

If your character dies accidentally during the battle, although you will not be forced to quit the battle and start again, you will not be able to continue to act for the next minute, which will increase your final battle time and affect your ranking.

To avoid this, you’d better equip gear with corresponding resistance according to the boss’s attack characteristics in advance, and buy POE 2 currency to get more modifiers to further strengthen the existing effects of the gear.

In addition, the game will continue to update the competition ladder during the event, and you can use it to view everyone’s ranking and battle time after the game. This can also help you arrange the next battle more reasonably by understanding the gap between yourself and the leader.

How To Participate The Race Events?

If you want to get Demigod’s Virtue and are confident in your strength, you can find the “Join” button corresponding to the event on the character selection screen before the next race starts and click it. Next, the system will prompt you to create a character, but you can only control the character when the event starts.

Winning Skills

The competition mechanism is actually not complicated. Just defeat Doryani. The key is that the ranking system requires you to increase the speed of completing the battle without limit.

This requires not only that you have a good understanding of the boss’s attack mode and response ideas, but also that you must have superb POE 2 combat skills.

Choose Your Best Class

If you’re familiar with Path of Exile 2, then you’ll have at least one class that you’re good at. Since each class has different mechanics, and therefore different strategies and skills available in combat, the class you’re most familiar with is the best choice to maximize your abilities.

Because in the actual combat process, how to rotate skills, how to deal with deadlocks, what build to choose, and when to self-heal, these key issues require you to have a good understanding of your character and its class.

Practice In Advance

In regular games, you can also fight Doryani in Act 3, provided that your character is of sufficient level and you’ve defeated all the pre-bosses. If you don’t have other game tasks for the time being, you can repeatedly fight Doryani encounter as a practice.

It is worth noting that besides Demigod’s Virtue, all winners of the three games will also receive a desk pad with the representative class pattern of POE 2 as a physical item reward! They are also very attractive!

That’s it for Demigod’s Virtue, and all the race event information you need to know to get it. Since the first race should be over, make sure to prepare for the next one! I wish you a glorious victory!

Deadeye is Ascendancy class of Ranger, one of the current 7 base classes in Path of Exile 2. Ranger is a class with good attack accuracy and mobility in the game, and its Ascendancy class Deadeye has further expanded the influence of Ranger by adding unique mechanisms.

Although the base class and Ascendancy class actually share the same set of skills or builds, you can complete the builds selection and craft with Deadeye as the core after completing Trial of Sekhemas and unlocking Deadeye to cope with more difficult game content.

Based on this, I will introduce you to how to build an upgraded Glacial Lance Deadeye Build to complete POE 2 endgame.

What Are The Features Of Deadeye?

This Ascendancy class is a shooting expert in the game. It can not only fire additional projectiles in combat, but also quickly kill enemies and complete combat by moving faster when attacking. In addition to being able to deal huge damage to the single target, it also has reliable AOE skills, which are suitable for a variety of combat scenarios.

Deadeye’s unique abilities include:

• Avidity
• Called Shots
• Eagle Eyes
• Endless Munitions
• Gathering Winds
• Projectile Proximity Specialisation: Far Shot, Point Blank
• Thrilling Chase
• Wind Ward

It is important to note that most Deadeye builds, including Glacial Lance, which is the next that we will introduce, all rely on gear effects, and this Ascendancy class itself requires sufficient mana to operate. Therefore, you need to complete gear farming and mana flask charges in a timely manner.

Glacial Lance Deadeye Build

Undoubtedly, the core skill of this build is Glacial Lance, which can handle endgame mapping and more difficult boss battles very well. Although it may be slightly weak when clearing large groups of enemies, the synergy between Voltaic Mark, Cast on Freeze and Herald of Thunder can solve this problem.

To make this build more reliable in the endgame, you can continue to add Thrilling Chase skills and gain Tailwind effect through Gathering Winds, which will give you faster movement speed on the basis of reliable mobility.

Then, combined with Thrilling Chase and Barrage, you will be able to deal with multiple Glacial Lance damage effects to the enemy with a single throw of the core skill. But if you want to utilize this build to make it to the end, it is recommended that you buy POE 2 currency to add more positive modifiers to the existing gear.

How To Craft To Deal With More Difficult Battles?

After entering Path of Exile 2 endgame, the most difficult to deal with is undoubtedly the pinnacle boss, so we have adjusted and upgraded the composition of Glacial Lance Deadeye Build with this as the goal - if you can deal with the most difficult boss, then dealing with other content is naturally a piece of cake.

Skill Selection

As you know, there are a lot of skill gems to choose from in POE 2, and the total number has increased again after the release of patch 0.2.0. Don’t worry though, we’ve got you covered with the best skills for the endgame version of this build:

• Glacial Lance (Martial Tempo, Cold Infusion, Perpetual Charge, Primal Armament, Pinpoint Critical)
• Barrage
• Trinity
• Combat Frenzy
• Herald of Thunder
• Ghost Dance
• Lightning Spear
• Orb of Storms
• Font of Rage
• Cast on Critical

Once you get these skill gems and master them, you’ll need to cast them one by one in a fixed rotation order, as different orders may result in different synergies between skills.

• 1. Utilize Orb of Storms to build rage, and Font of Rage to blind enemies (works better on single-target bosses)
• 2. Apply Sniper’s Mark with Spear Stab when you hit a critical hit to accumulate frenzied charges.
• 3. After maxing out frenzied charges, utilize Barrage and stack the effect up to 16 times to always have a frenzied charge.
• 4. Utilize Glacial Lance to unleash 16 layers of frenzied charges in order to kill with one blow.

Of course, while dealing damage with these active skills, it is also important to unlock and add available passive nodes. Ascendancy Nodes that need to be unlocked first include:

• Avidity
• Thrilling Chase
• Projectile Proximity Specialisation
• Gathering Winds

Gear Selection

In fact, this build has different gear matching solutions for different game difficulties and tasks. After entering the endgame, you have to consider not only the adaptability of the gear, but also the gear with higher rarity as much as possible.

• Armor: Thrillsteel Spired Greathelm and Nightscale Pauascale Gloves (Iron Rune, Glacial Rune, Desert Rune, Storm Rune)
• Weapon: Spear (Iron Rune, Glacial Rune)
• Accessories: Elemental Resistance Rings
• Thawing Charm

Adding appropriate runes to weapons can further expand their original properties, such as Iron Rune and Glacial Rune can increase the physical and cold damage of weapons, and Iron Rune can increase the dodge level of armor.

As for charms, we recommend Thawing Charm, which makes you immune to freezing effects and provides you with increased duration and flask recharge.

The above is the main combination plan for making Glacial Lance Deadeye Build in POE 2 powerful enough to handle most endgame battles. I hope it will be helpful to you! Thank you for reading.

With the launch of Dawn of the Hunt, Path of Exile 2 has welcomed many new contents, including the new base class Huntress and her two Ascendancy classes Amazon and Ritualist, which has made players begin to study how to develop related builds for them.

In fact, the existence of Ascendancy class is to allow you to get a more diverse class experience in POE 2 without changing the base class. After all, changing the base class at will is not a wise mechanism.

Based on this, this time we will take Amazon as a representative to introduce you to the best build craft ideas for this Ascendancy class.

What Kind Of Amazon Builds Should You Choose?

Although Ascendancy class can serve as your reliable combat assistant based on the appropriate builds, on the one hand, the construction of the builds related to it is slightly complicated, and on the other hand, the entire Huntress class including Amazon is relatively difficult to master in the early stage of the game.

However, if you are an experienced Path of Exile player, it is recommended that you choose Bleed builds based on playing Huntress and Amazon, because this type of build can effectively output a lot of damage by matching Rake and Twister skills, helping you complete Act 1 and the first half of Act 2.

Next, when entering the latter content of Act 2, you need to learn more skills to further strengthen Bleed builds in order to deal with more dangerous bosses. After entering Act 3, due to the increase in difficulty and changes in the mechanism, you can replace the build you use with Lightning Spear build in time.

Through the battle, you will obviously find that the damage output of Lightning Spear build is much more than that of Bleed type, but the reason why it is not selected until Act 3 is mainly because most of the skills or support gems suitable for Lightning Spear will only drop at the end of Act 3 and Cruel mode.

In other words, for Amazon, different periods require you to utilize different types of builds to better deal with the game content. In addition, if you are struggling to master all the skills when crafting builds, you can buy POE 2 currency to increase the strength of your gear, which is also a good auxiliary means.

How To Craft?

As already introduced, different types of Amazon builds are required in different acts, so the crafting process also needs to be switched in a timely manner on a step-by-step basis. Next, we will introduce them one by one.

Act 1

As the starting stage of the game, what you have to do in this act is to complete the basic tasks while unlocking and mastering the available Amazon (Huntress) skills, while accumulating available resources, including currency and gear, and then defeat the final boss to enter the next act.

To do this, you first need to master the important skills Twister and Whirling Slash. With their help, you can unlock Rake after completing half of Act 1. After defeating the main boss of this act, The King of the Mists, you will get the first Uncut Spirit Gem and unlock Herald of Blood.

Also, don’t forget to unlock and take the support gem Stomping Ground in this act, as it further enhances the effects of Rake and allows you to complete the rest of Act 1.

Act 2

The first goal in this act is to unlock and equip Blood Hunt skill, and then farm the support gems Bloodlust and Execute to enhance this skill. After completing some battles with them, you should unlock Bloodhound’s Mark and Spearfield as the main skills of the build.

Other support gems available in this act include Lacerate and Rage, which mainly enhance the effects of Spearfield. You can also continue to unlock Skill Speed ​​and Predatory Instinct after completing Trial of Sekhemas.

In fact, it is not until you complete Trial of Sekhemas in Act 2 that you can truly unlock Amazon as your Ascendancy class as a Huntress - of course, the skills and build prototypes you have already acquired can fully serve you based on Amazon.

Act 3

From this act on, the skills that mainly serve Bleed build can be retired, and Lightning Spear Build will be the main character. To do this, you need to obtain the following skills in order:

• Lightning Spear: Attach Volt, Perpetual Charge, and Twofold
• Storm Lance: Attach Lightning Infusion, Primal Armament, and Blindside
• Sniper’s Mark: Attach Arcane Tempo and Inspiration
• Herald of Thunder: Attach Reach and Innervate
• Infuse Weapon (Amazon Ascendency): Attach Lightning Exposure and Blind

Most of these skills or support gems are unlocked by completing Trial of Chaos in Act 3, and Infuse Weapon skill can be obtained by unlocking Elemental Infusion in Amazon Ascendancy skill tree.

Cruel Mode And Mapping

After completing all 3 acts and entering the harder game content, you can win more and harder battles with the basic completion, while continuing to unlock more advanced gems to further improve your build to obtain the following skill combinations:

• Lightning Spear: Volt + Perpetual Charge + Twofold
• Storm Lance: Lightning Infusion + Primal Armament + Blindside
• Sniper’s Mark: Arcane Tempo + Inspiration
• Infuse Weapon: Lightning Exposure + Blind
• Herald of Thunder: Reach + Innervate
• Rhoa Mount: Meat Shield + Loyalty
• Combat Frenzy: Cannibalism + Precision
• Barrage: Premeditation + Ingenuity

If you think you can do all the tasks required above, why not unlock Amazon and build your Amazon build to fight on top of having a Huntress character? This will also help you win the upcoming race event! Have fun!

As you know, Path of Exile 2 patch 0.2.0 released in early April brought a lot of new content, including not only game content that can be experienced, such as new classes or new maps, but also many new items that can be obtained, including new skill gems and runes.

Among them, runes are one of the important items in POE series. When you insert it into the open slot of gear, it will provide you with corresponding attribute bonuses, which is very important. However, after the launch of Dawn of the Hunt, facing hundreds of new runes, you may not know which ones to get first.

Based on this, we will give you priority to Greater Rune of Alacrity this time, and introduce its role and how to obtain it.

What Is POE 2 Rune?

A rune is a POE 2 item that can be inserted into the corresponding slot on the equipment. Each rune provides different attribute enhancements, mainly depending on the type of rune and the gear it is suitable for (including military weapons, wands, staff and armor).

All runes in the game are divided into three rarity levels: lesser, normal, and greater. The higher the level, the harder it is to get, but the better the buffs it provides. In addition, after you complete Trials of Chaos, you may receive a drop called Soul Core. It works similarly to runes, but the effect is more unique and harder to obtain.

With the release of Dawn of the Hunt, you may find that Talismans drop after killing enemies affected by Azmerian Wisp. It also works similarly to runes, but each Talisman can only provide the properties of one piece of gear.

What Is Greater Rune Of Alacrity?

As one of the new greater runes added in patch 0.2.0, when Greater Rune of Alacrity is embedded in a martial weapon, it can increase your skill speed by 8%. Based on this, if you are playing Warrior class, you can try to utilize mace builds based on choosing Smith of Kitava as your Ascendancy class.

This is because the skill Perfect Strike, which is the main skill of this type of builds, has a very slow attack speed on normal mace, and Greater Rune of Alacrity can perfectly solve this problem.

However, it is worth noting that due to the large number of new runes, it is troublesome to pick runes from them without the help of a guide. So you may prefer to buy POE 2 currency to directly add speed-enhancing modifiers to gear. But seriously, this rune is worth having.

Advantages Of Greater Rune Of Alacrity

In addition to the skill-speed increase mentioned above, this rune can also provide damage bonus. But embarrassingly, no matter how your weapon is obtained, only the basic DPS and other attributes will be displayed, and the damage increase brought by the skill-speed increase will not be displayed, causing this rune to be ignored.

However, the skill-speed-up benefit not only increases damage, but also makes your combat experience smoother, and reduces the speed of enemy movement and attack by allowing you to launch fully charged attacks faster, killing bosses more accurately while avoiding enemies.

How To Get This Rune?

The way to farm runes in Path of Exile 2 is basically universal, mainly including killing enemies, recasting other runes, and exchanging them by currency.

Dropped After Killing Enemies

Generally speaking, you have a chance to get rune drops after completing most battles, but Greater Rune of Alacrity is one of the four special greater runes. It can only be obtained by summoning and defeating the boss during the exploration of the unique map Phaaryl Megaliths.

The four runes are:

• Greater Rune of Alacrity
• Greater Rune of Nobility
• Greater Rune of Tithing
• Greater Rune of Leadership

Reforging Bench

Unfortunately, due to its rarity, this method does not work with Greater Rune of Alacrity, as it has no lesser or normal versions. Here’s how Reforging Bench works:

• Combining three lesser runes of the same type turns it into a normal rune of the same type.
• Combining three normal runes of the same type turns it into a greater rune of the same type.

Currency Exchange

Find Alva in the Hideout and talk to him to open the currency exchange interface, where you can trade Greater Rune of Alacrity with other players using your existing currency. However, considering how hard it is to get, the currency required should be quite a bit.

How To Utilize It?

As long as you have an empty rune slot on your military weapon, drag Greater Rune of Alacrity to the designated location to apply it. It is worth noting that once greater rune is placed, it cannot be removed or restored, but it can be replaced by other runes of any level, Soul Core, or Talisman.

The above is all the content introduced to you this time. I hope this will attract your attention to this rune and get it in time to fully utilize its value. Wish you good luck!

Exploring the complex Atlas atlas is one of the most difficult and most rewarding ways to play in Path of Exile series, so when you enter the endgame, you will find that most of your game time is consumed on mapping.

In order to keep the game fresh and interesting, POE 2 released many new content with the new league Dawn Of The Hunt in early April, including several new unique maps.

Although it has been a while since the new league was launched, considering the large number of maps and the time required to farm each one, you may not have had time to explore all of them. Based on this, we will bring you relevant information about The Silent Cave & The Fractured Lake maps.

The Silent Cave

This map is an essence-themed map. In addition to providing you with Atlas passive points, its main function is to allow you to obtain usable essence after killing specific bosses. Most of the time, this map will only appear in desert biomes, but if the spawn location is close enough to the castle, it can inherit its local biome.

How To Farm?

After entering the map, you will encounter four monsters one by one during the exploration process. They will be evenly distributed around the center of the map, and each of them hides an essence. These essences are of random basic types.

When you defeat these four monsters on the periphery of the map and obtain the corresponding essence, these essences can be upgraded to Greater essence and then transferred to the ultimate unique boss Zekoa, The Headcrusher, in the center of the map. Killing him can obtain Greater essence, then you can sell it on the market or utilize it as a crafting material.

But in fact, for boss battles, you have two options. One is that if the boss is not too difficult, it is easy to manage, but the reward will be relatively small; the other is to release and defeat more rare monsters, and pile all Greater essence on the boss, to get more generous rewards while facing a difficult battle.

It is worth noting that in this map, you can buy POE 2 currency to increase the rarity of your Waystones, thereby increasing the drop rate of loot in the map by utilizing high-level Waystones. However, you should be careful with this approach, given the dangers of the map.

Also Read: Path of Exile 2 Currency Free Giveaways & Promotions

What Do Loot Essences Do?

These essences function similarly to normal essences, but they are corrupted by Vaal Orbs, which then continue to add new essences, giving you a chance to get the following new Greater Essences:

• Greater Essence of Haste
• Greater Essence of Ruin
• Greater Essence of Battle
• Greater Essence of Torment

However, the results of these re-rolls are completely random, which means it is very likely that your Vaal Orbs will cause you to lose a valuable Greater Essence. The advantage is that if the roll is good, you can double the essence.

The Fractured Lake

As a water biome map, The Fractured Lake can only be found near bodies of water, so if you plan to farm it specifically, start by looking for the nearest unexplored lake.

The Fractured Lake is special in that it benefits from the famous Local Knowledge currency drop boost effect in Atlas, and has a hidden modifier inside that increases the number of rare monsters by 150-300%. This way you can get more currency under the influence of Local Knowledge by killing more monsters.

How To Farm?

The scene in this map is actually very similar to Kalandra League in Path of Exile 1. Your map spawn point and the surrounding area are several basalt pillars standing in the water, and some small monsters are lurking on other pillars.

Until you move to the pillars near these monsters, they are in a static state and you can’t attack them. As you expand the scope of exploration, all the pillars will gradually rise to form a complete road surface, allowing you to approach these monsters.

It is worth noting that all rare monsters in this unique map are mirrored, which means that in each battle you must fight two identical versions of each rare enemy at the same time. This doubling effect greatly increases the difficulty of completing the map, and it is an actual test of your survival, skills, and strategy.

Final Loot

After killing the monsters and bosses on the map, you will find a Fragmented Mirror at the end of the map, which contains loot rewards exclusive to the map, and each has a different prefix or suffix effect, which are:

• Dusk Ring: Prefixes+1 / Suffixes-1
• Gloam Ring: Prefixes-1 / Suffixes+1
• Penumbra Ring: Prefixes+2 / Suffixes-2
• Tenebrous Ring: Prefixes-2 / Suffixes+2
• Dusk Amulet: Prefixes+1 / Suffixes-1
• Gloam Amulet: Prefixes-1 / Suffixes+1
• Penumbra Amulet: Prefixes+2 / Suffixes-2
• Tenebrous Amulet: Prefixes-2 / Suffixes+2

These rings or amulets often have impossible combinations, such as fire, cold, thunder, and all element resistance as suffix modifiers on rings or amulets, thus opening up the possibility of making rings or amulets, helping you enrich your POE 2 builds in this way.

After the introduction, you should have a certain understanding of these two POE 2 unique maps. If you are confident, go and challenge them!

Of all Path of Exile 2 classes that have been appeared to the game, Warrior is a tank-type melee class that is based on strength and is good at using enormous weapons. If you are new to the game, you may find it difficult to master this class, but it is indeed very reliable.

With the series of changes and updates brought by the launch of the new league, the combat strategies of each class have also been adjusted, and therefore the builds suitable for each class have also changed. For Warrior, if you want to play this class and experience Dawn Of The Hunt, then Sunder Totem Titan Build is a good choice.

Based on this, this time we will introduce you to the best solutions for this build in terms of gear and skills.

Sunder Totem Titan Build

The key to the effectiveness of this build is to further combine the available gear based on effectively combining class skills to fully utilize the synergy between them. Therefore, you should first get and master the two skills of Ancestral Warrior Totem and Sunder.

Totem can slam the ground, locking onto enemies while dealing huge indirect AOE damage, while Sunder can output more shockwaves by increasing your attack speed, AOE damage, and physical damage. The combination of the two will make you safe even when facing endgame and difficult bosses.

Best Gear Match

From helmets to boots, this time we have brought you the most comprehensive build gear match plan, and ensure that all gear meets at least one of the following 4 effects. Of course, if you can buy POE 2 currency to add more additional modifiers to some of them to further enhance them, it will be even better.

• Totem uptime
• Sunder scaling
• Mana sustain
• Defense

Weapon

• Elder-Influenced Karui Maul or Ezomyte Staff

Since Ancestral Warrior Totem mainly calculates damage through your weapon properties, when you stack fixed physical damage and physical percentage damage through your two-handed weapons, it will eventually produce extremely strong lethality.

These two weapons can bring physical damage increase and additional fire or freezing effects, and have a chance to cripple enemies. Elder-Influenced can generate additional enhancements for weapons, further increasing your damage output.

Helmet

• Rare with +2 to AOE gems

As long as your helmet has the above characteristics, you can increase Sunder damage, but if you want to be sure, it is best to find a helmet with an enchantment that allows Sunder to generate additional shock waves, because this can expand the range of Sunder’s clearing.

Body Armor

• Kaom’s Heart or Rare

The advantage of Kaom’s Heart is that it can provide a large amount of fixed health to ensure your survivability, but considering that it cannot provide slots, if you choose it, you need to arrange your skills reasonably. In addition, the problem of lack of slots can be solved by using a rare treasure chest with “% Physical Damage Taken as Elemental” effect.

Gloves

• Spiked Gloves with added phys + attack speed

With gloves that increase physical attack damage, attack speed, health, and resistances, Totem skill will adjust based on your attack value to continue to pass these properties, and the increased attack speed will also reduce the casting time of the totem.

Boots

• Rare with movement speed ​​+ life + chaos res

The faster movement speed is undoubtedly suitable for most combat situations, and the two chaos resistances of Unaffected By Burning Ground or Avoid Elemental Ailments can help you in key boss battles.

Amulet

• Turquoise Amulet with +1 to melee skills, totem damage, and strength

This amulet’s effects further the use of the two key skills of Ancestral Warrior Totem and Sunder, while increasing your health and damage output. It may need a lot of orbs to obtain it, so it is best to choose according to your situation.

Best Skills

With Ancestral Warrior Totem as the primary damage skill, different combinations of other skills make this build suitable for different combat scenarios. If you want to clear a large group of enemies faster, you can choose:

• Martial Tempo: Increase attack speed
• Upheaval: Add additional rifts to cover the area
• Inspiration: Manage mana consume
• Magnified Effect: Increase the area of ​​effect

For bosses, you can choose the following skill combinations:

• Sunder: Primary attack skill
• Martial Tempo: Maintain your attack speed
• Overpower: Increase damage to stronger enemies
• Brutality: Increase physical damage
• Close Combat: Increase damage to nearby enemies

Passive Skill Selection

In general, focus on unlocking passive nodes that enhance melee damage, totem effectiveness, and survivability to craft a powerful Sunder Totem Titan Build.

First, starting with health and melee damage nodes can improve your survivability and output ability. Then, combined with the following passive skills, you can maintain the attack and defense balance of the build in battle:

• Giant’s Blood: Improve your melee skills by dual-wielding two-handed hammers
• Polymathy Cluster: Meet the attribute requirements of your gear
• Resolute Technique: Improve the accuracy of attacks

Other Notes

You may encounter some misunderstandings or difficulties in the process of utilizing this build, such as ignoring your attribute requirements - whether you are too pursuing damage or missing the key attribute threshold, it will cause the build to fail to exert its due power.

In addition, when casting Ancestral Warrior Totem, be sure to ensure that your totem is placed in the right position, because being too far away from the enemy will greatly reduce the skill effect, and being too close will attract too much hatred for you, causing unnecessary trouble.

Finally, don’t forget to always pay attention to your mana consumption. Whether it is too much consumption or directly running out, it will affect the combat efficiency or even cause you to fail. Therefore, be sure to support it in time through flasks and other methods.

The above is some information about Craft Sunder Totem Titan Build in POE 2. I hope it can help you in your journey of POE 2. Thank you for reading.