r/PathOfExile2 • • 9h ago

Question Questions Thread - October 28, 2026

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This is a general question thread. You can find the previous question threads here.

Remember to check the community wiki first.

You can also ask questions in any of the questions channels under the "help" category in our official Discord.

For other discussions, please find the Megathread Directory at this link.

The idea is for anyone to be able to ask anything related to PoE2:

  • New player questions
  • Mechanics
  • Build Advice - please include a link to your Path of Building
  • League related questions
  • Trading
  • Endgame
  • Price checks
  • Etc.

For questions related to PoE 1, please go to r/pathofexile

No question is too big or too small!

We encourage experienced players to sort this thread by new.

We'd like to thank those who answered questions in the last thread! You guys are the best.


r/PathOfExile2 • • 51m ago

Crafting Showcase Absurdly rich what do now?

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Got an a HH early from rites which set my char up. After which found a lock, mirror,few linage gems

Gambled on a adorned, hit jackpot 73% rare jewel mod with 3% reduced cold dmg.

-Sold it for 21k div.

Chase drops remain a sapphire bought one 2 socket sure.

But a legit drop is yet to occur.. that and the GE boons.. and reach lvl 99.

Made my dream char with the rathpith globe without life cost mod

Divs are free in my maps I run.

What do you do at that wealth level?

- New char no way doing campaign again.


r/PathOfExile2 • • 53m ago

Tool I made a PoE2 exchange heatmap to see more than just the Divine price

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Hey, I'm the developer behind POE2WAY. I'm based in Korea, where I also run a stock-market website I built. That project is about helping people catch up on the day's market in one place, and while working on it I kept thinking it'd be fun to have something similar for PoE2.

So I borrowed the heatmap idea and built it around the Currency Exchange. The tiles are sized by the value traded over the last 24 hours, converted to divines, and colored by the price change in whichever currency you pick. I added a 24h/72h comparison of exalts, chaos and divines above it too. A material can look more expensive in exalts even when its price in divines has barely moved.

I also wanted to see where the activity was shifting, so I added the Leaders page. It looks for items taking a larger share of trading within their category than they did over the previous week. The Lead tag also takes their price change into account: it has to beat the category average. You can look back through the calendar to see what was getting traded on earlier days.

From there, Browse is for digging into a particular set of items. The screenshot uses a preset for items near their seven-day low that went on to rise after the same point last league, sorted by traded value. You can tweak the category, price, trade activity and other filters, then save the combination if it's something you'll want to check again.

Of course, a filter like that needs some context, so the item pages show the actual past-league records alongside the current price. For Breachstone, the change from D+54 to D+68 was +12.1% in Runes of Aldur but -44.0% in Dawn of the Hunt, in divines. The other two seasons have no prices for those points, so I've left them blank. You can also look at observed hourly price patterns in your own time zone.

And if you've been away for a while, the timeline pulls together what happened across the league. The first three days are shown individually, then days 4–7 together, followed by weekly blocks. Each one shows how the Divine rate moved, where trading was concentrated and the biggest risers and fallers. The screenshot is from days 36–42, when Omens were up 15.4% while the Divine/Exalted rate fell 3.1%. It's a way to catch up before opening individual charts.

All of this comes from filled trades on GGG's in-game Currency Exchange, collected hourly, so it covers exchange items rather than rare or unique gear. For the league comparisons, D+0 is the first UTC date with observed exchange data. Past seasons are there for context; I wouldn't assume this one will follow the same path.

It's up here if you'd like to have a look. No account or install needed:

https://www.poe2way.com/market/en

If you give it a try, let me know what you'd want to see on the overview, or if there's a label that needs a better explanation.

The site has ads. There's an optional subscription that removes them and lets you save unlimited economy presets.


r/PathOfExile2 • • 1h ago

Discussion 10 changes poe 2 needs in 1.0

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Do we agree with this take or disagree?

Video discusses 10 changes I think we need in patch 1.0 as well as several honorable mentions. Here are the topics and time stamps

Pinnacle Bosses: 0:26​ Balance Changes: 1:07​ Skill Tree & Jewels: 1:46​ New League: 2:31​ Tablets: 3:02​ In Game Info: 3:47​ Campaign Changes: 4:37​ Atlas Tree and Masters: 5:16​ Fortress: 5:58​ Honorable Mentions: 6:51​

https://youtu.be/BlxzIIAKHZY?si=Q-2r1GKhiYpgEKTJ


r/PathOfExile2 • • 3h ago

Question Should I buy PoE 2 now or wait for it to become free?

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Hey everyone!

I've been wondering whether I should buy PoE 2 now or wait until it becomes free.

I have some experience with ARPGs like Diablo, but I'm still pretty new to the genre.

One thing I'm really interested in is the crafting side of the game. I'd love to become the kind of player who crafts high-quality gear to sell to other players, or maybe even becomes the main crafter for a guild.
I'm not sure how viable that playstyle actually is in PoE 2, though. Is crafting something you can really specialize in and make a name for yourself with, or am I just dreaming? 😅

I'd love to hear your thoughts! Would you recommend getting into the game now, or waiting for the free-to-play release?

Ps: I hope my english is good enough


r/PathOfExile2 • • 5h ago

Question What is the best way to make currency?

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I’m a relatively newer player and have been playing quite a lot of expeditions but don’t feel that i’ve been earning enough. Could it be because i haven’t maxed out the entire atlas tree? Only the expedition one is maxed out. I’ve also been putting in 3 irradiated tablets each time with item rarity and monster effectiveness. This made me want to master crafting as i’ve seen many videos and posts of people making mirrors worth of items just from crafting and trading alone. What is actually the best way to earn currency if you don’t mind sharing?


r/PathOfExile2 • • 5h ago

Game Feedback Trade site history tab missing

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anyone hear anything about history tab coming back to the trade site? why it was gone and any plans to bring it back?


r/PathOfExile2 • • 5h ago

Discussion 10 days playing act4 fonished. Starting trading but i need some advice wich gear has value and wich not.

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I've played many ARPGs in my life since D1 and I've traded a lot. I know I'm gonna need almost 1k hours and 15-20 meta builds to fully recognize the best gear, but could someone give me some advice on any uniques or items that are considered the "panacea" right now? Just to help me out a bit. Also, let me know if there's a specific page or list I should check out.


r/PathOfExile2 • • 6h ago

Discussion Night 1 in New Zealand for the first time thanks to GGG

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Landed in Auckland this morning from the US and settled into our Airbnb for the first night. Just want to thank GGG for building such an amazing game and a community that brings players from all over the world together in a place this beautiful. For anyone else here for ExileCon, I hope to meet some of you! And for everyone watching from home, see you on the beaches of 1.0 in a few weeks!


r/PathOfExile2 • • 7h ago

Information 0.5.5e Hotfix 1

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  • Fixed a bug where minimap landscape geometry could fail to render correctly.

This patch has been deployed without restarting the servers, you will need to restart your client to receive the update.


r/PathOfExile2 • • 8h ago

Lucky Drop Showcase Finally found a sapphire

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Finally found one!!!!


r/PathOfExile2 • • 8h ago

Game Feedback GGG - Please separate End Game and Stash for each character

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This is a feedback post that hopefully reaches GGG and they consider it.

Please separate End Game and Stash for each character. Or at the very least End Game as a must.

Every time you create a second character, you basically load the first characters save. Any sense of progression does not exist, and for those that care about it (and i certainly do), you miss out on a lot of interesting voice interactions and dialogues. Maybe you want to go in a different direction with the skill points and exploration. You are completely denied any of that. In my case, it's what makes me completely stop playing the game each season. I have replayed a ton ton of characters, but only until i reached maps, because going further with multiple characters makes no sense to me.

For example if i did a Warrior end game, i will never see how Druid interacts with Ritual. It does not make any sense. All of that really shapes your character to what it is supposed to be.

You have such a great campaign, but the end game feels like very unfinished work that someone just put together on paper and developed in a week to fast release (still much better than at the beginning.

Here's hoping GGG sees this. Thanks.

EDIT: As many replied, good idea to just enable for us to choose on any character creation. That would be the most ideal solution.


r/PathOfExile2 • • 9h ago

Discussion Need build assistance for armour/ward stacking mace build

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Currently I’m playing a ward/armour stacking low life infernalist doing spark coc/coa at multi mirror level and it’s incredibly strong. I played ward infernalist last season too but it wasn’t low life. However I’m looking to change and fully respec my gear as I always wanted to be a mace main.

Since I got the low life rune ward/armour part down, and I always wanted to try being a mace build main (Crit focused) it’s essentially just switching out the weapon and all jewels etc but most of the armor slots are interchangeable. I have started theory crafting a Crit based mace build that relies on ward+armour.

The main question is, do i go infernalist or gemling? I have both at lvl 98, so either works, but I always wanted to try the martial infernalist archetype the problem is that gemling seems better in almost every aspect which is why I’m posting here for advice and also I’m thinking there might be a huge issue with mana if i go gemling (I need assistance with this part in particular)

Second question is, earthshatter or shield wall?

Here’s my breakdown of the pros and cons of each class that I’m seeing.
・infernalist
1. Insane Crit damage scaling. 1.5 more from ascend, 1.3 more from low life, 1.35 more again from weapon mod+implicit. Basically 50% more damage compared with gemling.
2. Can fix mana by infernal flame (self damage not an issue)
3. Insanely easy to scale ignite (all damage adds to ignite)

・gemling
1. More survivability through Crit immunity
2. Gets more extra cold damage from verglas (nearly enough to overcome the extra Crit damage infernalists get but adds slight clunk)
3. More armour (a lot more) through arctic armour and more from scavenged plating
4. Almost 50% extra attack speed from alchemists boon.
5. Potential to use whirling slash in offhand as a faster way of moving around
6. Huge area increase for contagion ignite spreading

Maybe I’m over complicating things, but although gemling seems better in almost every aspect can you reliably ignite stuff for contagion? Infernalist will be doing massive ignites it seems. Also, I don’t want to waste 2 slots on coc/coa but if I put frost wall and contagion together, won’t that drain all my mana instantly? Because either coc/coa will proc an insane amount of times, and I think I can regulate frost wall not procing so much by adding a support gem which adds a cooldown, but that will interfere with contagion by giving it a cooldown.

Final question but can herald of ice be used with contagion? I feel like the explosions might stop the ignite spread, but herald of ice is a good way to proc armor break… What about herald of fire?


r/PathOfExile2 • • 9h ago

Tool PoE Upgrade Checker 0.5.2: proper price checks, a league start route, and a bunch of fixes - let me know if you are using it!

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Hey all, I posted this overlay here a little while ago and got a lot of good feedback, so here’s what’s changed since then. Short version: price checking got a lot of work, and there’s a leveling guide built in now for the new coming poe1/2 leagues.

Had a bit of a visual upgrade as well.
I have just started a fresh poe2 player and will be using the overlay all the way to end game in preparation for poe1/2 new leagues and optimising along the way switching between both linux and windows so bug testing gets good coverage.

There has been tonnes of fixes and new features (to many to list check out github) but the standouts are below.

Price checks (F3)

It compares each listing with your actual item now, instead of averaging whatever the search turned up. Listings with way better mods than yours don’t push your price up anymore.

If nothing listed is really like your item, it shows a range instead of making up one number. Before, it would happily tell you a ring was worth 333 div.

It skips your own listing if you’ve already put the item up.

Cheap listings aren’t all thrown out as price-fixing baits anymore, which was making some stuff come out way too low.

Waystones and tablets are priced on their actual numbers (tier, mod count, rarity, pack size etc.) and only against listings that are at least as good.

Prices show in chaos too (PoE2).

There are Too low / About right / Too high buttons on every price, so you can tell me when it’s wrong. I’m using these to tune it.

League start (new tab)

The full campaign route for PoE1 and PoE2, with every passive point, trial/ascendancy, res and spirit reward counted as you go.

A small overlay over the game shows your current step (Ctrl+Shift+L).

Optional: it can follow your zones by reading the game’s Client.txt log, so it ticks off steps as you play. It’s off by default, it only reads the area and level lines, and nothing gets sent anywhere.

All optional quests are listed, or tick Endgame rush to skip everything except what actually matters (it still keeps every passive point and permanent buff).

If you swap between your main and a leveling character a lot like I do, it keeps track of which one the route belongs to and won’t get messed up by your main running maps.

Other stuff

Best runes / soul cores per socket, tested by Path of Building on your build.

Guide builds (.build files from Mobalytics/Maxroll) can be loaded straight into the app.

The loot filter highlights more useful stuff.

It’s free and open source. It doesn’t read game memory or touch game files, and the trade site rate limits are respected. Download: poe2upgrade.com

The route data is from exile-leveling (PoE1) and Splitstone (PoE2), so big thanks to those guys.

If something prices weird or the route skips a step on you, let me know (the log has everything I need).

PS - yes i made this with claude and the help of other github contributers (Thanks Spardutti!).

Happy hunting exiles!


r/PathOfExile2 • • 9h ago

Build Showcase WhirlMaxxing 22.73 APS

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Attempting to push Whirling Slash attack speed to it’s absolute limit. The game can hardly keep up. For context I’m using a rare spear with 2.92 APS base on Gemling.


r/PathOfExile2 • • 9h ago

Question King in the Mist Difficulty

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Hey Guys, sorry for the dumb Question, but i try to farm the from nothing Diamond from the King of the Mists and there was this post where i read, that it need to be "+4 Crux of Nothingness". So i assume this is the Difficulty from the Bossfight but how can i turn it up?

Is it depending on the Map Level or is it something else?


r/PathOfExile2 • • 11h ago

Question How much better is PoE 2 endgame now?

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Last time I played was like either 0.1 or 0.2, campaign was great, end game was utter trash. Like I didn't find a citadel in roughly 30 hours of doing maps I want to say back then. Not to mention how bad the maps layout was. Has it gotten better? Was excited to see the full release coming out in December and I want to go crazy on if it has gotten better.


r/PathOfExile2 • • 11h ago

Lucky Drop Showcase Idk what the hell just happened

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Just out of nowhere idk


r/PathOfExile2 • • 12h ago

Question SSF Druid. Crafting a Maji Talisman for mid-endgame

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Noob with 800 hours here asking for the first time.

I have a level 82 Maji Talisman of which I have annulled all modifiers, so it's a rare item. First question, is it even worth to continue at this point?

I have Chaos spammed it for each and every Chaos Orb I have found trying to hit t1 or t2 Phys. Attack %. So far over 100 Orbs, but no luck. Out of those 100+ Chaos Orbs, I've seen any tier Phys Attack % maybe about 5 times. I can't believe how rare it is.

I know I should find a (fractured?) exceptional base, but after full Atlas and a couple hundred maps , I've seen total of 0 Exceptional Talismans (and like 3 Exceptional items overall). Maybe I'm looking at a wrong place?

My current Talisman can so and so clear corrupted t15 maps with 8 modifiers, but I'm level 94 and the Talisman is from level 65-70, if I remember correctly. But the thing is my full clear speed per map is about 15-25 min depending on content. So it's slow as hell. So the second question: Should I just skip full clearing and focus on specific content?

So I guess this is more than just a crafting qusttion. Sorry for the long post.

Edit: Here's the poe.ninja (maybe? Never used before so hopefully this is correct). https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/M44W-7670/forbiddenritesssf/character/herppes


r/PathOfExile2 • • 12h ago

Lucky Drop Showcase my "IM SHAKING" post

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Do the voices unidentified sell for a mirror? I noticed the top of the list are all listed for a mirror but if you scroll down you see about 20 listed for divines. I feel like anyone rich enough to gamble with these probably know this. I was kinda bummed when I realized one was listed 2 weeks ago for a mirror and is still on there. So i will probably only get maybe 4k divs instead of 6k if I'm lucky?

Here is my poe ninja for anyone interested in the build. It's pretty expensive but there are more budget friendly versions

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/Spaz-5687/forbiddenrites/character/Drood_Heretic


r/PathOfExile2 • • 12h ago

Discussion GGG says my old RUB supporter packs block the PoE2 Art Book even if I pay for the upgrade in USD and ship to Germany

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I bought my way up to Warlord of the Karui without taking the T-shirt or hoodie — GGG does not ship physical goods to Russia, so I took the points instead. That was fine. I’m not asking for those old items now.

Later I decided to upgrade to Liberator for the Art Book. I can now have it delivered to Germany and am ready to pay for the upgrade in USD, plus shipping, taxes, or a reasonable price adjustment.

Support initially told me to use the international USD shop with an address they can ship to. After checking my old purchases, they added this condition:

“In order to receive physical items, all tiers of a Supporter Pack must be paid for in an eligible currency.”

Their fix is not to charge me the difference. It is to buy all four tiers below Liberator again in USD, on top of the same tiers I already bought in RUB — writing off $100+ and repurchasing the same points and cosmetics.

What was never disclosed is that buying lower tiers in RUB would permanently block physical goods from a later USD upgrade to a German address. The RUB store still advertised Liberator and the Art Book; the checkout notice discussed customs fees, while GGG’s own warning says only “for that pack”.

RUB was accepted when GGG sold me the packs. It became “ineligible” only when I wanted to add new USD and get the Art Book.

I’m attaching the support replies and old shop page. Has anyone seen this rule before, or had support offer a way to pay the difference instead of rebuying everything

The product page explicitly lists the PoE2 Art Book, while the RUB checkout I was shown warned only about possible customs fees — not that buying lower tiers in RUB would permanently prevent a later USD upgrade from including it.


r/PathOfExile2 • • 13h ago

Game Feedback Really impressed with PoE 2.

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I played PoE 1 a lot and I have been holding out on this game until I could get a new PC.

I gotta say it was worth the wait. This game is extremely beautiful in every way, from sound design to animations....just...all of it. The small immersive details that GGG puts into elemental effects like distortion around lightning and steam from explosions...exceptional art direction.

I'm just over 100 hours in on my first character. I just YOLO'd a mercenary, building around the suggested skills (permafrost bolts and fragmentation rounds).

Even without any planning I was able to make my first build work and I am now doing t11 maps pretty comfortably on SSF. Found two perfect jeweler's orbs. Being able to respec easily is a welcome change, if not for that I probably would have had to start over already.

I really like the way SSF works in this game, it's easier compared to PoE 1. I feel like I can do all the content on my first try. Some might say that is too easy but I quite like the difficulty level in the game. I feel like there are way more cool items to find compared to PoE 1 and they are easier to get as well.

I'm also impressed with the amount of end-game content considering the game isn't fully released. The atlas is huge and there seems to be major variety with epic boss fights, trials and side quests etc.

I really have to commend GGG. This is an amazing game and I'm not saying it does everything better than PoE 1 but I will never go back to PoE 1. This is a true successor that met my expectations.

Of course there are always improvements that can be made, but even in a flawed state this game is in its own league.

I feel lucky to play this game!


r/PathOfExile2 • • 13h ago

Question Need help understanding support gems and what they are compatible with.

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So, I’m doing an ice ranger build and I’m really confused with what support skills are compatible with certain skills. In this instance specifically, I’m trying to figure out why my game is telling me that elemental armament doesn’t support ice-tipped arrows skill. When I do an online search everything is telling me that it does support that skill. In fact almost every single support skill says it’s not compatible with ice tipped arrows in my game. Is this a bug or am I just missing something here? It let me make the gem and equip it to ice-tipped arrows. I tried doing a quick google search but had a hard time finding a clear answer. Also, I’m playing on PS5 if that helps. Thanks in advance for any help.


r/PathOfExile2 • • 13h ago

Information More ExileCon 2026 Merchandise

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r/PathOfExile2 • • 13h ago

Information Can't use fragments I bought (0.5 Runes of Aldur)

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Hey there,

why can't I use the fragements I bought in the Burning Monolith?

It always says: "Item is not correct"

I'm trying to get the Cartographer achievement done as fast as possible in 0.5 so I can move to 0.5.5.

What's the fastest way?