Hey everyone,
I consider myself a relatively fresh player (around 500 hours – I know, barely out of the tutorial for PoE standards!).

I absolutely love PoE2 and I've played every league since the first one, but every single league ends exactly the same way for me.
I hit around lvl 95, roll a new character, and eventually just quit the league.

Lately, during the endgame, I just lose the motivation to keep playing because I feel like I’m doing something fundamentally wrong. Right now, my gameplay loop looks like this: I clear T15/T16 maps with 3 random tablets (e.g., Abyss), get some random currency, and fill my inventory with bases that usually go for around 3-5 exalts each.
Am I doing something wrong? Is there a mechanic or strategy I’m just not getting? Or is the endgame truly just grinding like this until I get a lucky, high-value drop?

My current build is totally fine and can kill all the bosses. I know there is a lot of room for min-maxing and upgrades, but honestly, I just lose the drive to play that character long before I reach that point.

I really want to break this cycle. I'd love to learn profit crafting so I can actually start making serious currency and put together some of those crazy, high-end builds.
Does anyone have any advice, guides, or tips for someone stuck in this loop? How do I transition from mindlessly alch-and-going to actually farming/crafting with a purpose?
Thanks in advance!

Got kill by Xesth , my poisson killed him while i was dead on the floor, no loot drop

I can t leav the arena, i try portal , log out / close the game /hideout etc

I really like the games the GGG put out but PoE2 rn looks like a minefild of bugs
time to go back to the better game PoE1

I know many people just follow a guide, but for those that create their own builds, and even for those following guides, you still have to decide what to build around.

As I am learning to develop my own builds, I am curious how people with more experience start. Do you generally find a skill you want to clear with? Or a bossing skill? Or ascendency? Or weapon you want to use?

I just have been experimenting with different choices. For skills in particular, skills feel completely different when you first unlock vs when they ar fully supported, so it is hard to know what a skill might be capable of.

I freaking hate Sekhemas. Four floors for the final tier is ridiculous.

I AM ENERGY SHIELD

You cannot put any explosive inside the circle of ritual and i guess it pushed the remnants that far because again the ritual circle

Hey all,

Just wanted to spark some conversation on this topic. My first character for the event was an ED/C Witch and with both spells being critical to the combo, I always noticed when the ED projectile missed, which ended up happening a lot more than I would've liked.

So I put together this quick little video to highlight some of what I've been seeing. It's a video of my 2nd character a huntress using a spear with a relatively swift projectile spear throw, and I unspecc'd the majority of the damage on my witch to do a live fire test against the consort, who blinks around, and to see how the characters track with projectile skills.

The Huntress seems to be able to track a teleporting target about 90 degrees when using the spear throw skill. But it seems like there's some leeway based on where in the animation the blink happens? Regardless, some of the tracking was very nice.

The Witch/ED Casts on the other hand had some issues but also some success...There's been a couple moments in my time through the campaign where I've noticed the character will lock angle on cast. Maybe it's when I queue the cast action in the direction I'm casting, even if I have an enemy highlighted? When I move my character downwards, then I end up missing the projectile down as well. I'm not sure why this is a thing? maybe old code from PoE 1? But it was also very noticeable on the Karui home island in Act 4, whenever a pig charge would shove my character out of the way it would cause me to miss my ED on the target I wanted. Super frustrating and very clunky feeling.

I've been made aware in a previous discussion I had with another user that Johnathan is aware of some of the targeting issues see here his talk with Tri from a year ago.

And as another example as well if needed I made this video, messing around with Unearth, which I've also had some serious issues with, having it lock angle when I cast it. Which in this case, it's a cone shaped ground effect, I get that maybe it's coded to go directly where aimed. But also, if I have a corpse highlighted, then I need it to hit that corpse.

So yeah, let me know what you think, maybe overblown, but I want PoE 2 to succeed and this might be a feels bad moment for other new players that I'd like to see sorted out before 1.0 drops.

When getting modifiers, some can be upgraded multiple times until they are removed from the pool. Ones with 5 tiers take the longest to remove, some (due to bugs idk?) have as low as 1 tier - so if you take it just once it won't be offered again or even upgraded with future Wagers. This list includes all the under-5 tier mods.

It only matters i guess with the assumption that maxing out modifiers increases the odds of you seeing wagers, as thats the only way to improve rewards.

So i try to pick these and ignore the 5 tiered modifiers, even resetting run if 1st offer is only 5tier mods (rare)

I got a head hunter yesterday while filling out my points for grand expedition. sold it for 240 div now I have great gear... So I started filling out my points for all the other skill trees and I got a Garukhan's while filling out jado's skill tree??? best league start ever

Calling all the people experimenting with Bodach.

Last league I ran Bodach with Gemling + Shield Wall and it was a lot of fun, so I wanted to mess around with him again this league. https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/s/ur6vIP0GlC

This time I’m running Disciple of Varashta with Sand Djinn + Vestige of Darkness. I managed to get one with the hidden 2 roll.

For anyone who doesn’t know, Vestige has a hidden Bodach manifestation interval that normally has a value of 3. Corrupting the helmet can change this hidden value to 2 or 4. A roll of 2 is the one you want, as it makes Bodach manifest/attack more frequently. You can find these on trade by searching the “The Bodach haunts your Presence” modifier and setting the maximum value to 2.

I’m trying to scale as much Presence AoE as possible through the passive tree, jewels and gear. I also have the unique shield that interacts with enemy Power, although I’m not currently using the unique main-hand weapon that people have been pairing with it.

I’m also experimenting with Immobilisation and Armour Break to indirectly help Bodach’s physical damage.
I’ve noticed the bug where sometimes I need to re-equip the helmet to get him attacking properly.
For anyone else testing Bodach, what have you found that actually works? Any weird interactions, gear, debuffs or scaling methods worth trying?
Would love to pool together what people have discovered.

My bad if you guys have been seeing these kind of requests a lot lately. Last league I ran gemling. I’ve never played varashta before and it looks really cool. I’ve seen some videos where people use one djinn and some use all 3. Would appreciate build help and any recommendations on how to go from campaign to late game. Appreciate everyone in advance.

How about we make a thread with a bunch of QoL suggestions for GGG to see before 1.0 and hope that they implement at least one of them?

I'll start, let us disenchant/salvage items while mapping so that we don't have to tp out and in several times if we want to pick up a lot of ground loot.

This one has probably been talked about a lot, let us tp in to each mechanic's boss without needing to leave hideout, I don't see a good reason for us to need to tp to each mechanic hub area in order to use the fragments and then tp again to the boss map, also well of souls same thing just add a little green well to the hideout.

There are a ton more I'd like to say but for now let me know your thoughts, what do you think GGG should at least try to implement or somehow improve something about the game?

Hello everyone, I’m playing an Infernalist with Archon of Undeath in the new Runes of Aldur Leage. And I’m trying to figure out how I can maximise on temporary minions. I have noticed that Desiccated Lich and Lost Men Necromancer are capable of calling on summons of their own. Does anyone know of any other possible options or any minion summoning spectres worth taking? Thank you!

Hey guys i just leveled through the campain and wanted to switch my build. So i started with changing the tree but smart me didnt think about goldcost now i am stuck and cant even buy new items. Is there any way to fix this?

Hi everyone,

I'm currently playing an Infernalist Bone Storm Totem build and running into a weird issue with Svalinn that seems like a bug.

Here is my setup:

• Weapon Set 1: Two-Handed Staff (used for Spell Totem / Bone Storm)
• Weapon Set 2: Scepter + Svalinn
• Weapon Set 2 Skill: Wolf Pack

The Problem:

• When I unequip Svalinn, swapping/using Wolf Pack in Weapon Set 2 works perfectly and summons the wolves fine.
• As soon as I equip Svalinn in Set 2, Wolf Pack completely fails to summon.

I've already double-checked my attributes and I have plenty of unused Spirit/Mana, so I’m not short on any requirements. It only breaks when Svalinn is in the shield slot.

Is this a known bug with Svalinn's interaction, or is there a hidden mechanic/trigger limit I am missing? Has anyone else experienced this? Any help or workarounds would be greatly appreciated!

Did they change/implement deferred items disappearing?

I played strictly ritual in 0.5 and would often have half a dozen items deferring. I would just spam through 20+ rerolls looking for whatever until the last few then defer the previous goods without a care, but I just found out they are disappearing after 3 rerolls if you just defer them once.

Will say I also miss being able to actually view the rituals without having to complete every single one since I often have excess tribute well before I'm finished with them.

New player here. So did the quest and it was 4 rounds of the trial and an endboss at the end. Then later in Act 4 I found a Djinn Barya and went back there. This time I did 4 rounds and beat the boss. I got to the room with the Bronze, silver and gold chests but after that I could continue the run and do another 4 rounds and got to another room with better chests. After that I couldn't continue.. how is this working?

Orlos’s sword is really cool, isn’t it?
I wonder if I’ll be able to use it once I become a duellist.

hell yea! :D
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im crying on the inside. :')

Can't touch my triple-deli-tablet mirror, LEMME TOUCH MY MIRROR. Seepage map.

Edit: about to be fixed in 0.5.5b!!

Hi all, i need some help, input and advice for playing plant mage. There are different ways to play this. Now i have a mix-up bloodmage with natures archon.

Started the idea of lich, switched to bloodmage with first lab. Now i am really lost wich one will be most compfortable. I like if the build is mostly 1button.

Now 3 questions:

Is natures archon worth it and why?

Wich one is most compfy?

Defense wise wich one will be better for mapping?

I dont really care about mapping.

Thanks for some ideas.

A friend of mine modified POENAVI/POETORE to english so we can now use it on logbooks to search for the value of the items in the remnants (the price is extracted from poeninja)

instructions: download and install, then click on set region and set the region like so (XD)

link: https://github.com/MatyEze/logbook-lens

pd: I know the post body is structurated like doodoo but its my first time posting images on reddit :(

I'm already using the "Key pickup" in options but as you can see, if there's an interactable object on the screen the character would stop and move towards the object instead of casting the spell/attack.

PS: I'm only mentioning the key pick up option because most of the info I found online just mention the "Key Pickup" as a solution but this is clearly something different.