Since Path of Exile 2 released its first league, Dawn of the Hunt, players have been complaining more and more about the lack of depth in the endgame content, and even the player community and social platforms are full of negative comments.

In view of this, the developers focused on improving the player experience in the endgame content in April and May, and are expected to launch a 0.2.1 patch this month to further improve the problems in the endgame. In this case, where the endgame content is becoming more and more important, it is becoming more and more important for players to farm more loot or specified materials in it.

For example, Expedition Logbooks are a key helper in the endgame content of POE 2 to help you unlock important encounters and obtain higher-level loot. So this guide will show you how to effectively farm Expedition Logbooks in the endgame content of POE 2 Dawn of the Hunt and how to use them so that you can get the best experience in the subsequent game progress.

Farming Method

Before farming Expedition Logbooks, make sure you have reached the endgame stage and can unlock Expedition encounters in Atlas. Maps containing this encounter will be displayed with a black and white spiral symbol on the map.

After you unlock the map containing this type of encounter with the corresponding Waystones, find an NPC that can give you explosives that can be used to dig around the area, and use the explosives it gives you to find loot and treasure chests hidden by the developers after the story or missions, including Expedition Logbooks.

However, you are not always lucky, and you may find more enemies with the help of explosives, and they all need you to defeat. After completing some battles, you can also find some Expedition Logbooks and other loot through the treasure chests left by these monsters.

Or if you think the above grinding is too cumbersome, you can also directly obtain the specified Expedition Logbooks through the in-game trading market and spend some POE 2 Currency. Although this is more expensive, it is convenient.

Some Tips

By the way, the generation rate of Expedition Logbooks in these treasure chests is actually not very high, but you can buy POE 2 currency to modify the affixes on the Waystones required to unlock the map to increase the quantity and quality of the drops contained in this map, so as to achieve the purpose of efficient farming.

Or you can increase your chances of encountering more profitable enemies by picking up more debris that can increase the loot drop rate or generate more rare monsters, thereby increasing the probability of Expedition Logbooks appearing.

Additionally, you can improve your Expedition Logbooks collection progress by modifying some of the options in your build. For example, Detailed Records Passive gives it a 50% drop rate bonus and guarantees it has three implicit modifiers.

Usage

Once you have gone through all the trouble to collect some Expedition Logbooks, you need to think about how to maximize their effectiveness.

If you don’t have a strong enough build to deal with a high-challenging encounter or the modifiers contained in it are not useful for you, you can trade them with other players in exchange for more POE 2 game currency.

If you can’t wait to earn more loot for your character through Expedition Logbooks, you can also take them to Dannig, a very important NPC in the game. It will take you to a special map area with an encounter larger than the normal battle scale.

Here, the combat strategy you need to use is actually no different from the normal one, but you need to rotate your skills a few more times. Of course, the loot you are rewarded with is also more and higher-level.

Alternatively, you can use it to unlock your encounter with Olroth, Origin of the Fall, but it’s worth noting that you can only unlock this encounter with Expedition Logbooks at level 80 and above.

Also, not every map that contains an Expedition encounter will contain this encounter, and you can tell if this boss will appear by whether a skull icon appears on the map.

After you successfully defeat Olroth, you will obtain a lot of loot, such as Olroth’s Resolve Ultimate Life Flask, which can greatly increase your health, and Heroic Tragedy Timeless Jewel, which can convert notable passive skills into other skills.

There is also a Book of Knowledge that gives you 2 passive skill points, which can be used to unlock passive skill nodes that can have a high buff to your build to increase the overall effectiveness.

The above is the current method for effectively farming Expedition Logbooks and maximizing their use in the current POE 2 Dawn of the Hunt league. Hopefully, you can use them to get a better gaming experience in the increasingly important endgame content with the introduction of this guide, and look forward to some updates brought by the 0.2.1 patch. I wish you a happy game!

Since the early access of Path of Exile 2 was released, it has received many reviews from the player community and social platforms, with mixed reviews. But when POE 2 released its first major patch and first league in April, a large number of negative reviews came, and the number was more than the very poor Lake of Kalandra League released in the original game.

Among these negative reviews, the most important one is that POE 2 Dawn of The Hunt League has many restrictions on many skills, making them very poor in some regular battles, and even after investing a lot of POE 2 currency, they can’t play the maximum effect in the endgame.

In fact, the developers also realized their mistakes, so they used the whole of April and May to release nearly 10 small patches to make up for the negative effects of this patch 0.2.0. Not only that, the developers also promised to release a new 0.2.1 patch in the first week of June to increase the playability of endgame content to alleviate players’ negative emotions about this sequel.

In addition, POE 2’s Game Director Jonathan Rogers recently accepted a public interview. He said that the developer will provide a skill library that can better adapt to the endgame in the next league as the main goal of the update, which makes many players very excited.

The Origin Of The Infamy

In fact, POE2 received a lot of praise when it was first released, because it has a completely different game style from the original and adds new classes, which makes many players who like to complete high challenges want to try it.

At that time, the diversity of builds in the game was still very high, which was the most obvious criterion for measuring the success of the overall design of action role-playing games. Here, players can use Infernalist to summon skeletons that can cause burning damage for fearless exploration, or use Invoker’s Ice Strike and Cast on Freeze to cause very large cold damage to the enemy.

However, if the environment in the entire game has been stagnant and players can only use a few powerful builds to complete all explorations, its appeal to players who pursue multiple game styles and gameplay will be greatly weakened. In light of this, the developers nerfed Trigger-based Meta Gems a week into the new league to encourage players to create more new build possibilities.

However, the nerfs were so severe, and the developers did not plan to balance the patch in the middle of the league, which resulted in most builds being far less effective than before, and only having skills like Essence Drain and Contagion that were not destroyed could make a good build options at the time.

In this situation, players often died in battles due to the weakness of their builds. Over time, players became more and more resentful in POE 2, because no one wants to not have a smooth exploration experience in a game that they paid for.

Developer’s Reflection

For these negative reviews, Jonathan Rogers first expressed his apologies to all players, and said that the original intention of this update was to allow players to rely on their own creativity to create a variety of skill combinations, so as to form a sharp contrast with POE 1, which focuses on a single skill as your main skill.

The assumption that the complexity of multi-skill gameplay would make players who love high-challenging content more interested in it was completely wrong after fact testing. So the game director promised players in the interview that the developers would learn from this lesson and make improvements in the next major patch and the next league.

Some Promises

In order to reduce the number of negative comments from players in major player communities and social platforms, Jonathan promised that in the subsequent game content improvements, the developers will pay more attention to expanding the basic effectiveness of a single skill, so that players can experience their unique combat power in the endgame content that they have to go through a lot of hardships to break into.

In response, he revealed that the developers will take a different approach to the league reset window, which means that instead of waiting for a league to develop to the expected perfect state, the league update time for POE 1 and POE 2 will be fixed at about 4 months.

But it must be admitted that the developer announced last year that the early access time of this sequel is only 6 months, so according to this trend, the developer is likely to delay the experience time in order to let players see their determination to achieve this major goal.

This is great for some players who just want to enjoy the current situation, but it is also likely to cause those who want to explore for a long time to think, because the extension of the experience time means that the official version of POE 2 will be far away.

In any case, the idea that the developers of Path of Exile 2 are striving for change is good, but its trust index in the hearts of players is not high, because there are many precedents for not keeping promises. 

If you are a fan of both the original and the sequel, then you can verify its development results through the new POE 3.26; but if you only play the sequel, you can also see their determination in the 0.2.1 patch released next month. I wish you a happy game!

Since the early access release of Path of Exile 2 on December 6, 2024, its developers have been constantly improving this action role-playing game that has always been at the center of player discussion, such as the major patch 0.2.0 released in early April and the various small fixes that followed.

But in fact, except for the week after the release and the latest Dawn of the Hunt league, players’ evaluation of POE 2 has been negative for the rest of the time. In particular, some old exiles who returned from the original work agreed that the endgame in the sequel did not have enough depth, and players could only do some meaningless farming and challenges in it.

Although in previous patches, the developers intended to improve the player’s gaming experience in the endgame, such as increasing the drop rate of loot in it, adding more unique maps in the endgame, and adding some new mechanisms for players to challenge. But unfortunately, it didn’t help.

Last week, the developer announced that it would release another major patch 0.2.1 in the last week of this month, which will focus on the improvements in the loot drop rate, Atlas and Map Mechanics in the endgame. This news made all players excited. But recently, the developer announced that the release of this patch is expected to be delayed until June.

Guessing Reason

In fact, this is not the first time that the developer has played tricks on the players, because such tricks are everywhere in the development and release of POE 2.

But for this delay, I think the reason can be guessed by players who know the two trump games owned by this developer: to make POE 3.26 Secrets of the Atlas expansion released smoothly.

Some time ago, the developer announced that it was expected to officially release the latest league in the original game on June 13. This is the longest time to update the league since the league mechanism was added to the game in 2013.

Prior to this, although POE 3.25 Settlers of Kalguur League was praised by many players, there was no new game content in nearly a year, which exhausted the players’ enthusiasm for it.

And most importantly, during the period when players were looking forward to the new league in POE 1, the developer announced that it would transfer all staff to the development of the first major patch of POE 2, which disappointed almost all old players who were loyal to the original.

So when the developers announced that they would continue to release POE 3.26, these players began to look forward to it again, expecting that there would be more fresh and interesting game content waiting to be explored.

To be honest, it’s not just the loyal old fans who are paying attention to this matter. Some novice exiles who have only been exposed to the sequel are also paying attention to it.

Because when POE 2’s early access is expected to end in early July, players are looking for a game with similar gameplay and the same exploration experience as a replacement. What could be more like a replacement than the original?

So they are waiting to see how much of an explosion this POE 1, which was released more than ten years ago, will bring. Judging from the comments about the two games in the player community or on social media, the developers seem to have realized that focusing on the original works in the current situation may help their reputation turn around.

So they announced that the release of POE 0.2.1 patch will be delayed, and some new game content in the patch will be announced as compensation. There has been speculation about the release date of this patch.

Since most of the patches for this game are released on weekdays, and there is a live focusing on POE 3.26 on June 5, June 6 is the most likely date.

Patch Content

To compensate, the developers also announced some of Socketables that will appear in POE 2 0.2.1 patch in this announcement, which can meet the requirements of those who no longer need the early socket bonus and want to start maximizing the effectiveness of their characters, and will probably provide more creative options for the endgame builds used by players.

Only 3 Runes, a Soul Core and a Talisman have been announced so far, and the remaining Socketables items may be announced one by one in subsequent patch notes. Next, here will be a detailed introduction to them and their possible impact on the subsequent game content.

Runes

Farrul’s Rune Of The Chase

It can be inserted into your unique boots to increase your movement speed by 5%. The only suggestion here is to add it to a boot that can provide you with high defensive capabilities, and buy POE 2 Currency to upgrade it, so that you have both high survivability and a certain degree of mobility.

The Greatwolf’s Rune Of Willpower

This rune can be placed in a slot on your Body Armour, and will increase your damage resistance by applying 10% of the damage done to mana instead of health. This is not very good for spell-focused classes, so you may want to equip some potions or gear that can restore mana.

Hedgewitch Assandra’s Rune Of Wisdom

This is perfect for a Wand or Staff used by a Sorceress or Witch, as it will increase the level of all your spells by one. Although it only gives a one-level bonus, it will make the build extremely effective if you have invested a lot of PoE 2 currency into the weapon you used to maximize the skill level affixes.

Soul Core

Tacati’s Soul Core Of Affliction

This can be placed in a slot on a unique helmet, and will reduce the resistance to chaos damage of enemies you curse by 8%. You can find it in Trial of Chaos Ultimatum encounters.

Talisman

Talisman Of Thruldana

This Talisman can be placed in your Martial weapon, which will reduce the duration of poisons you inflict by 25% and cause the targeted enemy to be affected by an additional poison at the same time.

Although the developers have once again promised to release more information in Path of Exile 2 0.2.1 patch before the end of this week, in fact, not many people are looking forward to it at the moment. I wish you a happy game!

When delving into Path of Exile, which has been released for more than ten years, you may be overwhelmed by the huge passive skill tree, the diverse skill gems, the many variants of gear, and the complex Ascendancy route.

Moreover, when you seeking the best builds in the player community and social media, you may also be daunting by the hundreds of passive skills and interactions between active skills.

However, it is worth noting that there are still some builds in POE that achieve a single stack of damage with just one active skill activation, dealing extremely high damage to enemies and providing stackable defenses for yourself.

They are called one-button builds. So here is a guide that lists the best one-button builds in the current Path of Exile 3.26 Secrets of the Atlas expansion and the things you need to pay attention to when making and using them. 

Since there is a greater emphasis on passive and skill gem synergy here, you may need to farm more POE currency through some profitable league mechanisms to enhance your gear and maximize the power of your build.

1. Flicker Strike Berserker/Slayer

The first build to be introduced is based on the most popular one-button skill Flicker Strike in the current league, applicable to all class play styles. However, the most suitable one is the passive skills that the two Ascendancy Classes Berserker and Slayer can provide you.

In this build system, you only need to hold down the normal attack button in combat, and then you will be automatically teleported to the side of each enemy and use powerful damage capabilities to easily kill them, which also works in endgame content.

It should be reminded here that since Flicker Strike has a long cooldown, you may need to choose gear around Frenzy Charges that can help you reduce the skill cooldown when making this build. Among them, Replica Farul’s Furr is one option you should pay attention to.

2. Cyclone Slayer

Thanks to the developer’s enhancement of Cyclone skill, the build with it as the main core has become the preference of many players in the game, and even its production method has been searched more times on the community and social platforms than other builds.

During the battle, you only need to cast high range damage by clicking Cyclone to gain the ability to clear the entire screen and move quickly. Coupled with the passive skill that Slayer provides you with increasing AOE damage, you can achieve efficient farming in some maps or mechanisms with super loot rewards.

Although this one-button build is less dependent on Uniques than the other ones, it consumes a lot of mana, so you really need to invest some POE Currency in it to improve mana recovery efficiency and reduces mana consumption.

3. Righteous Fire Chieftain

Both of the one-button builds we just introduced have some disadvantages to some extent, but if you choose Righteous Fire, you will be free from those difficulties. Because it has both high damage and certain tanking capabilities, you only need to activate this skill and shuttle back and forth on the map to complete the battle.

However, since Righteous Fire will cause some damage to itself during the casting process, you really need the passive skill of Chieftain, Marauder’s Ascendancy class that increases the health regeneration speed to achieve higher survivability.

Of course, in addition to the regular defense buffs, you also need to pay attention to the fire damage ability and sustained ability statistics of your skills, so please invest more time and energy in those gears that can provide you with these buffs to farm or directly craft.

4. Death’s Oath Occultist

If you don’t want to worry about whether your fire resistance is enough to cast the maximum effect of Righteous Fire every time, you can try to use Death’s Oath to cause unstoppable Chaos Damage to the enemy, even with a thick energy shield.

In the current POE 3.26, this unique chest piece has been enhanced: after activating Death Aura skill given to you, the basic damage to the enemy has been increased from 1000 to 1250. In this case, Occultist, which focuses on chaos damage, will be the best choice to carry this skill.

Most importantly, since Death Aura skill does not cause damage to you, you don’t need to stack too high health recovery ability in the construction, so that you can invest more in nodes that can provide you with higher DPS, but this will make you lack defensive ability against single monsters such as bosses, so please pay attention.

5. Essence Drain Contagion Trickster

The last one to be introduced is also an old acquaintance. Whether in POE 1 or POE 2, the skill combination of Essence Drain and Contagion has excellent effects and is loved by many. Although this cannot be strictly considered a one-button skill, it is also included because the chain damage ability they present is too strong.

You first need to cast Contagion, and then cast Essence Drain. This will cause the enemy affected by the previous skill to spread the unconsumed skill damage to other nearby enemies after death, which makes the chaos damage and continuous damage ability you need to invest in it stronger.

So Trickster came into being, but it is worth noting that it also has the common problem of one-button builds it will be very difficult when fighting against Boss, so please always pay attention to your defense ability.

These are the reasons why the 5 one-button builds in the current Path of Exile 3.26 Secrets of the Atlas expansion are worth trying, as well as the specific production methods. Hopefully, with their help, you can easily complete the exploration of the main campaign, and after a little modification, it will still be valid in the endgame content. I wish you a happy game!

Path of Exile 3.26 adds a series of updates and changes, so the build rankings in this expansion will undergo earth-shaking changes again.

Among them, Flameblast of Celerity has been greatly enhanced in Secrets of the Atlas expansion, with an additional 220% increase in spell damage for each gem level. So, there is no doubt that this skill will lead the new build trend in this league.

Here, we will talk about Flameblast of Celerity Totem league starter built with this as the core. This can make a lot of monsters explode before your eyes.

Build Basics

First of all, for Flameblast of Celerity, if you haven’t obtained this Transfigured Gem, you can also choose to use the regular Flameblast. But this is naturally not as good as Transfigured version.

Since the regular Flameblast has a maximum of 10 stages, even if the casting time is reduced to 0.2 seconds, it still takes 2 seconds to reach the maximum level, which is quite slow.

In addition, Totem will automatically release the skill after reaching the maximum level. Although this ensures that the skill always has the maximum damage, the damage will be delayed, which not only leads to mediocre monster clearing speed, but also puts us in danger because we need to stay in the monster group longer than usual.

Therefore, we need to spend POE Currency to equip high block shields and focus on stacking block nodes. Currently, our attack and spell block chance is about 50%, but it is still not enough, because it is tied to our survivability, so I think it is worth investing more in it. Of course, positioning is also important, after all, this is a totem-based build.

Leveling Tips

For leveling, it is actually quite smooth, because we only need to drop totems and run through the monster group. Although the monster clearing speed is mediocre, the experience points obtained are not bad.

Before we got Flameblast Gem in Act 3, we used Holy Flame Totem, Rolling Magma, and Flame Wall when we upgraded. Since Spell Totem was available in Act 1, we prioritized upgrading this support gem, and then immediately switched to it as soon as we got Flameblast.

For those who want to use Flameblast of Celerity in Solo Self-Found mode but can’t stand Flameblast, you can use other fire spells such as Blazing Salvo, which you can use from Act 1 until you get Transfigured Gem.

Flameblast Of Celerity

So, when we started to advance Yellow map, we switched to Flameblast of Celerity. We can clearly feel the difference in casting time from the explosion. Compared with the normal flame blast, Flameblast of Celerity is obviously much faster, and the clearing speed is not very fast, but it is still good.

Flameblast of Celerity only has 3 stages at most, which means that even though its cast time was increased from 0.25 to 0.3 seconds in POE 3.26, it still takes less than 1 second to reach the maximum stage. If you can stack the cast speed of your gear and talent tree, you can further reduce the channel time.

So far, this build is very easy to play, as it does not require any special gear, and the only investment is the Transfigured Gem. Despite the poor gear, Flameblast of Celerity still does pretty good damage. Its single target attack is completely fine, even with regular Flameblast.

Gear

For this build, we have different gear choices for the early, mid, and endgame stages.

Early

Early versions of the gear are usually simpler. But let’s be honest, when we first reach the endgame, our gear will be very poor, so we have to prepare in advance. We want Flameblast to reach the maximum stack as soon as possible, so stacking cast speed is key, which can be obtained from weapons and jewelry.

As for shields, try to choose the one with the highest blocking chance, preferably more than 40%, and some life and resistance are additional bonuses.

If we can get and equip Tempest Shield in Act 2, plus the 2 clusters we will get later, unless we play too much, it should be safe to upgrade and map.

So, why not just use Glancing Blows? In my experience, unless you have other damage reduction mechanisms and life recovery is also high, it is easier to die with Glancing Blows. This is because when we have a high blocking chance, we will block frequently, and each block will take 65% damage. But if we block continuously and cannot recover life quickly, we will die easily.

As for Aura setup, vitality is the last consideration, which is only equipped when we upgrade to mid-term equipment.

In addition, Lightning Golem is useful when our casting speed is not fast enough, but if it dies frequently, you can completely give up it.

As for other equipment, just focus on satisfying your attributes and limiting your resistance. Chaos resistance is currently very hard to limit, but you should at least get it to a positive value.

Mid-game

Next, if you just want to make some money and switch to the next build, you should stop at the mid-game.

Here we need to get Eldritch Implicit Modifiers and some mana so that we can finally equip Vitality.

We can try to make some low-cost mods, such as increasing the block chance of body armor. These equipment will allow us to complete most of the endgame content, except for Tier 17 maps, Uber bosses and some high-difficulty Invitations.

Endgame

Finally, let’s take a look at the endgame! This is for those who really want to invest in completing the build. Remember, I don’t mean to get these equipment right away, you can upgrade them slowly.

There is an easy way to scale the damage of Flameblast of Celerity, which is to stack gem qualities. Now the gem of level 1 quality provides 2% extra spell damage per stage, which means 6% extra spell damage at the highest stage.

To improve the quality of gems, we can do so by equipping Dialla’s Malefaction, Ashes of the Stars, and Enhance Support. In addition, if a skill gem is placed in a green slot, the gem will receive a 30% quality increase.

However, here we choose to give up Ashes of the Stars and choose Leadership’s Price to increase defense. With Leadership’s Price, we can inflict Scorch, Brittle and Sap effects. Among them, Scorch reduces the elemental resistance of the enemy, Brittle increases the critical strike chance, and Sap reduces the damage caused by the enemy. Although we lose ignite damage, it is honestly negligible.

Since Flameblast of Celerity has no ailment damage mod, we only need to focus on strike damage. Conflux ensures that all strikes have a 100% chance to cause Scorch, Brittle and Sap.

However, whether Ailment is strong enough to apply its effects depends on skill damage and numerous non-damaging ailment effects, which means that it is very important to get Militant Faith with enhanced non-damaging ailment effects.

In addition to this, we can get a 50% increase in effect from Critical Mastery and 20% from the ailment effect node. Militant Faith can also enhance the passive Inner Conviction, which increases the spell damage of Power Charge by 3%. Since we have 5 permanent Power Charges, the spell damage is increased by 15%.

For support gems, Empower Support is actually more powerful than Increased Critical Damage Support, but obviously more expensive. If you are okay with clearing, then Concentrated Effect Support is also a good choice. Awakened Fire Penetration Support actually causes the least damage, but I think it is mandatory because we will not curse every monster when mapping, but it can be worry-free.

Finally, when we have enough maximum fire resistance and life regeneration, we want to use Righteous Fire to cause more spell damage. At the same time, we can also get life recovery through Vitality Aura, Ascendancy classes, Watcher’s Eye and equipment.

Whether you want to focus on mapping or leveling, this Flameblast of Celerity Totem build can help you achieve your goals as soon as possible in the early stages of the league. Try it now!

In the latest Path of Exile 3.26 Secrets of the Atlas expansion, players can use the newly added game mechanics and new items to create a lot of builds with different play styles. But what won’t change is that you still need to put some flasks on it to enhance the balance between your own combat and defense capabilities.

Unlike regular action role-playing games, the role of flasks in POE is not only to help restore your health or mana, but also to provide you with some temporary buffs and ailment immunities. So, whether you are in the main campaign or in the endgame content, having a set of flasks in your build is crucial for your exploration.

Since we are currently in the early stages of the expansion update, most players are still fighting in the early game content, so this guide will bring you the types of flasks that can be used in the current game content and the tips and precautions needed during use.

How Does It Work?

For those new to Path of Exile, here is how flasks work in the game. This is a special consumable that gives you some recharge based on the number of monsters you kill, which are consumed when you use the flask.

It is worth reminding you that multiple effects of the same type of flask do not stack, so it is best to pick flasks that synergize with your build. For example, in a build with high spell damage, you will need to place as many flasks as possible that can quickly restore a large amount of mana to maintain a smooth battle.

Types

In the current POE game content, there are three types of flasks:

• Life Flasks: Allows you to restore a certain amount of health in a short period of time, but will stop recharging after reaching the maximum health.
• Mana Flasks: Like Life Flasks, they allow you to restore your mana over a certain period of time, and will stop recharging after reaching the maximum mana.
• Utility Flasks: They can provide you with some buffs for a certain period of time.

Selection Strategy

Although I just said that you should choose the corresponding flasks according to your build, there are some general strategies that can be provided to you. First, in the early exploration process, since you have less POE currency and not many flasks to choose from, you can place a Life Flask and two Mana Flasks in your build to achieve continuous basic operation.

As the campaign progresses, you need to choose better Life Flasks and Mana Flasks according to the development of your build, and choose the corresponding Utility Flasks according to your exploration needs to obtain some continuous buffs. Here are also some Utility Flasks worth paying attention to in the mid-to-late exploration of POE 3.26 and their specific uses.

• Quicksilver Flasks: Can increase your movement speed.
• Granite Flask: Can reduce the physical damage you suffer. And can be paired with Molten Shell to provide you with a higher shield buff.
• Jade Flask: Allows you to increase your dodge level so that you can more easily avoid enemy attacks.
• Quartz Flask: Can provide you with Phasing skills, which will allow you to easily pass through group enemy attacks.
• Ruby/Topaz/Sapphire Flask: Can increase your maximum elemental resistance, thereby increasing elemental damage reduction.

Also Read: What New Changes Does Path Of Exile 3.26 Secrets Of The Atlas Bring? - Endgame And New Mode

Usage Strategy

Not only do you need to spend some time choosing flasks, but there are also some things to pay attention to when using them. It is best to use Life Flasks when your health drops below 50%, so that some flasks can play the maximum recovery effect.

As for Mana Flask, although you can’t abuse it, you still need to have a sufficient inventory at all times to offset the mana consumption after you cast too many skills. For Utility Flasks, you need to invest as much POE Currency as possible in them to extend the duration of their buffs as much as possible.

However, if you don’t want to pay attention to both skill rotation and flask usage during combat, you can enchant Utility Flasks with 5 Instilling Orbs and 5 Glassblower’s Baubles, which will make the entire flask set execute automatically and improve your dodge ability and focus ability.

Modifiers

As one of the most important items in POE character builds, flasks also have the opportunity to add additional modifiers, which will improve their effects to a certain extent. Here you need to be reminded that you need to go to Menagerie to craft the target, which will be unlocked after you capture beasts for Einhar in Act 2.

Here, you can find Blood Altar, which requires you to sacrifice some beasts to craft the corresponding modifiers. Just like choosing flasks, you also need to add modifiers according to your builds requirements and exploration requirements.

For example, if the monster you face next focuses on casting bleeding damage, you can add a modifier with Sealing to your Life Flask or Mana Flask, which will make you immune to subsequent Bleed and Corrupted Blood when you are bleeding damage.

In addition, Utility Flasks also have suffixes. You can spend some Orbs of Alteration and Orbs of Augmentation to add some suffixes focusing on armor, dodge, movement speed, critical strike chance and elemental resistance to make your build more powerful.

That’s it for flasks in Path of Exile 3.26 Secrets of the Atlas expansion, along with some strategies for choosing and using them. Since the developers often release multiple patches to the game within a month of the expansion’s release, the properties and statistics of some flasks will change.

Hopefully, you can use them correctly and place the right flask sets in your builds to give yourself the best exploration experience and to complete the main campaign and endgame content faster. Have fun!