NEWS GUIDE

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!

Last week, Path of Exile 3.26 Secrets of the Atlas officially entered the game, and brought a lot of adjustments to achieve in-game balance, such as skill enhancements or nerfs and the addition of new build options, which will affect the builds used by players in it.

For example, the builds used to run or farm maps. Under this adjustment, some skills or gear that are commonly used to clear large groups of enemies on the map or travel quickly are no longer as effective as before, and some new options have become popular among players.

Although efficient mapping may cause you to miss some interesting side quests or combat missions, you can earn the most POE currency and loot rewards from them in the shortest time, which is a hundred benefits and no harm for your overall game progress.

So this guide will recommend some of the current popular builds for farming unique, and divide them into SAB tiers according to the efficiency of mapping. If you haven’t explored this new league yet or want to try out a different playstyle, they might be a pleasurable surprise for you.

S-Tier

With the help of these builds, you can quickly clear all the monsters or treasure chests that are blocking you on the entire screen, and you can move quickly on larger maps.

1. Lightning Arrow Deadeye

In previous leagues, Lightning Arrow Deadeye has always been the best choice for players among many mapping builds, because its production process is relatively simple, and its clearing ability and group combat ability are sufficient.

Although this expansion update has made large-scale adjustments to some skill gems and Ascendancy passive skills, fortunately, Ranger and Lightning Arrow have not received debuffs, so it is still available in POE 3.26.

If you want it to have higher single-target damage, you can choose the two passive nodes of King of the Hill and Lethality to increase critical strikes, or invest a lot of Path of Exile currency in a bow that can provide you with higher elemental damage to get the maximum upgrade.

2. Volcanic Fissure Berserker

If you often check out POE 3.26 build guides on the community or social media, you will definitely be familiar with Volcanic Fissure Berserker build, as its super ability to fight single-target bosses is well known.

But what few people know is that this build is also very effective in map clearing: it will form a rift after you slam the ground, which will move towards the enemy and release super high damage multiple times.

And when you get close to the enemy, your Warcries will be activated and provide you with a huge damage bonus. Although it is effective enough in the early game, the real maximum effect will be released after you place Volcanic Fissure of Snaking on it.

You can obtain this important gem by farming The Lord’s Labyrinth and interacting with Divine Font around level 30. But it has a very low drop rate, so you can also try to get it from trading with other players for about 30 POE Chaos Orbs.

3. Poison Concoction Pathfinder

For players who want to complete the task of running the map while standing, choosing Poison Concoction Pathfinder build, which is still excellent in the current Secrets of the Atlas Expansion, is a very wise choice.

According to player feedback, with its strong enough mobility without too much investment and the good synergy of the excellent Ascendancy passives skills provided by Pathfinder, you can complete most explorations.

And you don’t need to use a primary weapon, so you can spend more POE in-game currency on gear in the build. In addition, if you are lucky enough, you can get Poison Concoction of Bouncing from Divine Font in the main campaign, which will increase your damage ability against bosses and have more flexibility.

A-Tier - Righteous Fire Chieftain

Compared to previous S-tier builds, Righteous Fire Chieftain’s mapping efficiency is not as high, but it is still the best choice for casual players because of the simplicity of operation provided by Righteous Fire, a rare single-key skill gem in POE, and the fact that there is enough time to fully explore every corner of the map during the campaign.

In battle, you only need to activate Righteous Fire and rush towards the enemy to cause high damage. In addition, Ascendancy passive skill provided by Chieftain can make your life regeneration, armor value and elemental resistance sufficient to cope with all challenges from the early game to the mid-to-late game.

B-Tier - Cyclone Slayer

Compared to previous builds, Cyclone Slayer’s farming and combat capabilities in previous leagues are not comparable. However, due to the enhancements to Cyclone skill and its Transfigured variant in this patch, you can use higher AOE damage to achieve specific effects in this build with higher damage and movement speed.

In addition, Cyclone Slayer build is not overly dependent on Uniques advantage, which makes it slowly accepted by some players. However, if you want it to have higher single pinnacle boss damage ability, you can place Starcaller unique, but it is not a must.

According to previous rules, POE developers may make adjustments to some of the currently popular and effective mapping build options, but regardless of any changes, you can still gain this effect by incorporating skills and gear that allow for crowd control and group damage into your build. Choose the one that suits your game style. Have fun!

After you have worked hard to complete all the campaign content provided by Path of Exile 3.26 Secrets of the Atlas, you will enter the real challenge - endgame content, where there are more difficult combat and farming tasks.

This means that you can no longer use the leveling builds that allows you to upgrade quickly before, and your original farming strategy also needs to change. For example, you will no longer rely on the modifiers on gear or Waystones to farm high-quality currency and loot, but use some activatable Atlas passive skill nodes.

In addition, make reasonable use of the new mechanisms or new content provided by the current new Secrets of the Atlas league to make the map you are running more profitable, and to farm some unimportant items in exchange for more currency rewards, etc.

In order to allow more players to make more money in POE 3.26, this guide will specifically introduce the three most popular methods of efficient currency farming by many players, as well as the precautions that need to be paid attention to. Without further ado, let’s start the road to becoming a tycoon!

1. Maximize The Role Of Expedition Map

After you enter Act 6 provided by POE 3.26, you unlock the opportunity to encounter Expedition in the early maps. This is one of the best ways to farm POE currency, as there are many treasure chests waiting for players to open, each containing a very considerable amount of currency.

In the process of exploring this mechanism, you can get Expedition Logbooks by farming Runic Monsters, which is an important item to increase your chances of encountering the boss on the next Expedition map. Of course, if you want to avoid this grind, you can also get it directly from Dannig at a cost.

Although Expedition map itself is profitable enough, in order to make you earn more, here is a suggestion for you: reasonably activate Atlas passive skill node that can bring you more benefits.

For example, in regular Expedition encounters, you can use the three passive nodes Hunt for Answers, Extreme Archaeology, and Buried Knowledge to increase the frequency of Runic Monsters and the number of Expedition Logbooks that can be farmed.

It is worth reminding you in advance that the passive skills you choose should be based on your exploration requirements first, and farming should be supplemented. So first ensure the survival and combat capabilities of your own character, and then consider the issue of efficient farming.

In addition, some passive skills may contain some curses or debuffs for you, which may reduce your defense or damage capabilities, so please do it according to your ability when activating them to avoid being unable to complete the task of running the map.

2. Use Heist Properly

You first encounter Heist in Act 7, which is one of the most interesting league mechanics in the entire game besides developing the town. Here, you will sign some contracts with Adiyah, the Wayfinder in Rouge Harbor, which will require you to sneak into the facility without raising alarms, retrieve guarded items and open more treasure chests, and finally escape alive.

Of course, opening treasure chests is somewhat dangerous, which will increase the alert value of the entire area. Once it reaches the peak, the entire area will be blocked and you will not be able to complete the final goal, which will cause you to lose all the loot, including POE in-game currency and many loot.

Under normal circumstances, short-distance mission contracts are more likely to appear in Rouge Harbor, so this is also one of the easiest ways for players to farm currency and gear. In addition, there are passive nodes like Friends in High Places Atlas that can also help you get high-value target items during these heists.

It’s worth noting that you may come across Grand Heist blueprints for your grind, which have the same mechanics, but are larger in scale and require you to buy POE Currency to make your character more mobile and defensive. In addition, you need to unlock different wings of a building in them, which is also a challenging action.

3. Farm More Scarabs

Currently, many players use Scarabs simply to add various effects to non-unique maps, but it is less known that higher-tier Scarabs can help you obtain high-value currency.

This means that if your game strength is higher than the exploration difficulty provided by Tier 16 maps, you can make a lot of money by taking advantage of the seemingly insignificant items they can provide you with more, such as POE Divine Orbs and Chaos Orbs.

And when you activate passive nodes such as Significant Troves and Skittering Swarm for your build, you can get more Scarabs from them. Best of all, this method does not affect other farming strategies you use in these maps, and you can still earn other loot in them.

These are the methods and strategies that players currently used to farm currency in POE 3.26. Please note that according to the developer’s usual routine, some small patches may be released within two weeks to crack down on the way players earn in-game currency efficiently, so it is recommended that you enter the game now and use the above methods multiple times in case of emergency. I wish you a happy game!

In Path of Exile 3.26 Secrets of the Atlas officially released last week, the developers added some new Pinnacle bosses to give all players a new endgame exploration experience. One of the pinnacle bosses, called Incarnation of Neglect, is well worth your challenge.

Not only does it provide you with some rare unique items like other bosses, but it also provides you with a large amount of new pinnacle POE currency added in this update, which will allow you to remove or add memory strands to your items to more conveniently improve the capabilities of your build.

Given that Secrets of the Atlas league has just started, many players are still exploring the early and mid-game content. But if your game level is strong enough, you will most likely enter the endgame content in a few weeks and feel the developer’s apology for ignoring the original game that was released more than ten years ago.

Therefore, it is very important to learn all the combat mechanics and strategies and suggestions for Incarnation of Neglect boss encounter in the chief difficulty content from this guide, which will keep you ahead of many players and complete most exploration challenges faster.

Where Is It?

When you travel through Atlas, you will encounter a specific NPC who will give you a map fragment called Echo of Loneliness, which you can use to teleport to an arena called Moment of Loneliness to fight Incarnation of Neglect.

If you don’t want to rely on luck, you can farm map fragments in boss encounters in Tier 14 and above maps that contain Memory Thread. It is worth reminding you here that you should avoid dying during these farming processes, so it is best to buy Path of Exile Currency before the battle to maximize the offensive and defensive capabilities of your build.

Features Of Incarnation Of Neglect

After you find Incarnation of Neglect, don’t rush into Moment of Loneliness arena. Instead, you should first understand some of the combat features of this boss, such as resistances and whether it is affected by modifiers.

According to the developer’s announcement and some leaked information, Incarnation of Neglect has 50% resistance to 4 elemental damage: Fire, Cold, Lightning, and Chaos. These resistances, combined with the partial damage reduction and high health provided by the boss by PoE 3.26, will make this encounter more difficult.

Incarnation of Neglect also has some property modifiers of its own, such as immunity to all slowing debuffs and knock back damage you cast, which makes this boss constantly move around the arena, and you can’t reduce its mobility with some simple control skills.

Moves & Countermeasures

Since no players have yet entered the endgame content of POE 3.26, there are not many specific introductions to the moves of the pinnacle boss in the player community and social media. However, here are some of the combat moves of Incarnation of Neglect based on the trailer provided by the developer.

At the beginning of the encounter, the boss will shoot three lightning balls forward and simultaneously fire a lightning beam that can cover the entire arena. Touching it will cause very serious lightning damage. Then, Incarnation of Neglect will shout Irrevocable Thought, which will cause it to fire three cold beams from its position to your position.

After about 4-5 seconds, the boss will again yell Patience is Mercy and fire multiple projectiles that deal different elemental damage. When the boss’s health is about 60% left, it will summon multiple elemental damage beams to limit your movement in the arena.

In addition, some white statues around the arena will also cause some damage to you during your fight with Incarnation of Neglect, so you need to keep an eye on their movements.

In summary, this pinnacle boss relies on different elemental damage to pose a high threat to you, so at the checkpoint closest to the arena, you should check in advance whether your elemental resistance is sufficient to cope with this challenge.

And judging by the situation after the launch of the previous leagues and the situation of Path of Exile 2, the controversial sequel, the developers will definitely release some small patches in the two weeks to respond to player opinions and suggestions for the new league, so the specific details of Incarnation of Neglect boss encounter will most likely change accordingly.

Loot

As mentioned earlier, after you defeat Incarnation of Neglect, you will be provided with a lot of loot with extremely high value, including 3 unique items with different drop rates and some new pinnacle crafting currencies for players in Secrets of the Atlas league. The current list of loot that can be known is:

• Arkhon’s Tools Unique Cloth Belt - 66% Drop Rate
• Venarius’ Astrolab Amulet - 33% Drop Rate
• Wine of the Prophet Gold Flash - 1% Drop Rate
• Orb of Intention
• Orb of Remembrance
• Orb of Unravelling
• Some Items With Memory Strand

The above is a specific introduction to the new pinnacle boss Incarnation of Neglect in the current Path of Exile 3.26 Secrets of the Atlas league, as well as some exploration strategies. I hope you can easily pass the early game content and complete the exploration of the new endgame content with the help of this guide to get a better gaming experience. I wish you a happy game!

According to the information released by the developers, Path of Exile 3.26 Secrets of the Atlas is expected to be officially released on June 13th. It adds a lot of new content, such as the current exclusive Mercenaries of Trarthus challenge league and new endgame content. In addition to the new mechanisms and items that will affect the gameplay, players are very surprised by the addition of the pause system.

In POE 2, which is highly sought after by developers, the pause mechanism has allowed some players to enjoy an unprecedented and enjoyable exploration experience. Given the previous developers’ attitudes towards the previous game and the sequel, players did not have high hopes for this Secrets of the Atlas league, but the appearance of the pause system overturned everyone’s views.

Since the current developers’ description of the pause mechanism that players are looking forward to is only a small part in the patch notes, most of it appears in some public interviews with its game director Mark Roberts. Therefore, this guide will explore the operation mechanism of the pause mechanism and the dual attitudes of developers and players towards it.

The Necessity Of The Pause Mechanism

For a long time, it is not uncommon for players to die because of problems with the game instance or network architecture in Path of Exile as a massively multiplayer online role-playing game .

In fact, in this type of game world, as long as you do not choose the Hardcore mode, it is very normal to die 1-2 times during an exploration. However, the super-strict death penalty in POE will greatly increase the exploration cost of players, whether you die due to skill rotation or network disconnection.

First, all POE currency and loot that you have not collected in the exploration of this map will be confiscated. Secondly, you cannot explore it again by using the same Waystones (even those with the same modifiers).

This will make the player’s small mistakes in a certain battle infinitely magnified, and even cause some newly joined exiles to not dare to try the final boss in the first act, because they are afraid that they will not be able to beat it and make all the costs invested before go down the drain.

Not only that, those players with medium game skills will also use the build that conforms to the current game version for a long time, because they are afraid that the new build will cause them to die in battle, which is completely detrimental to the build diversity advocated by the entire game.

How Does Pause Mechanism Work?

In view of this, the developers added the pause mechanism in POE 2 to change the status quo. In the subsequent exploration process, you only need to press Esc to pause, whether you are in some regular combat or running exploration.

But it is worth reminding you here that if you are playing a multiplayer game, only if each player chooses to pause can the entire exploration time be frozen here. According to Roberts, this is to prevent a player’s pause from affecting other players’ sessions to ensure fair exploration for all players in POE.

If the network environment you are in does not allow you to explore freely in the game, or even cause high latency, the system will help you automatically pause the instance exploration to prevent you from being hurt during the disconnection period. So with the help of this mechanism, those players who often experience lag will have a much lower chance of death than Hardcore players.

Of course, the developers are not partial, and Path of Exile also has a failsafe mechanism for hardcore players: if the game detects that the player’s client is no longer communicating, it will automatically pause the instance immediately. Although the detection element it has only looked at packet loss and frame rate issues, it is fast enough to prevent some abnormal deaths.

Developers’ Attitude

After Roberts introduced the pause mechanism in POE 3.26 for players, he said that not all game content in Wraeclast can be paused. In order to fully maintain fairness, all pinnacle boss encounters in the game will not be able to use pause.

Their consideration is to prevent some players from abusing the pause right to cheat, such as pressing Esc to observe what the boss’s next attack is or where the attack range will be.

In this case, the developers believe that it not only retains the highest challenge difficulty in POE, but also allows players to get super high flexibility in other aspects besides this content. They are even very confident that the addition of this system can attract more new players.

Players’ Attitude

In fact, since the developer announced that the pause mechanism will be added to the game, the attitude of players towards it has been mixed.

Especially after the announcement that Mercenaries of Trarthus challenge league would allow players to hire a mercenary to be your 0.5 teammate, players became even less optimistic about the pause mechanism. Because while you are exploring with your mercenaries, you can only mark yourself as paused, and the battle continues.

Not only that, but disabling the ability to pause during pinnacle boss encounters, which are extremely prone to death, is another point that players are very unhappy about.

Originally, the number of deaths and penalties for players in this high-difficulty challenge were already very high. After the pause mechanism was banned, the difficulty of the challenge can be said to have been taken to a higher level.

In summary, the developers added a pause mechanism to balance the exploration fairness in the game and disabled it in some difficult content, but players said that this would make some challenges that were originally difficult to win more difficult, thus further undermining the players’ confidence in exploration. So what is your judgment about it?

With PoE 3.26 Secrets of the Atlas League approaching, are you ready?

As we all know, the beginning stage is always the most critical moment in the game, just like building a house, the foundation is always the most important. A good starter build will always determine whether you can have a far superior advantage when you start the league and enter the endgame earlier, which is a vast difference between having to stagnate for a while because of using an inappropriate build.

Therefore, here we have sorted out the starter builds for various different play styles to ensure that everyone can find the most suitable one for you! Whether you have already chosen your initial equipment or you like to leave it until the last minute, it is always beneficial to get more information and know which builds are more popular. Let’s get started.

1. Volcanic Fissure Of Snaking Berserker

Let’s start with a build that is likely to become mainstream in the early stages of the league, which is Volcanic Fissure of Snaking Berserker.

While this isn’t a brand new build that just appeared in POE 3.26, it’s perfectly positioned in the meta as a strong successor to the severely nerfed Lightning Strike.

Volcanic Fissure of Snaking is a melee slam attack with great scaling and huge single target damage. When you slam the ground, you create a winding rift that deals area damage as it moves outward. Once it reaches the target location, the rift bursts, dealing damage to the target area, and the rift keeps moving towards enemies, dealing further damage.

Not only that, this build has great synergy with Warcries, and since it’s auto-cast, you don’t even need to press an extra button.

In addition, its spawning power is pretty strong thanks to Ascendancy rework and the use of Endurance Charges and other defensive layers. The explosive visual effects brought by this build will also bring you a feast for the eyes and ears!

2. Penance Brand Of Dissipation Inquisitor

Moving on to Penance Brand of Dissipation Inquisitor, which really shocked me by surviving 3.26 patch.

Despite being one of the most powerful skills in Path Of Exile in the past, it has not been nerfed at all in the latest update because of its mechanics and scaling to billions of DPS. And now, with updates to skills like Righteous Fire of Arcane Devotion, it could be even more powerful.

This build is excellent at farming content like Ultimatum and Simulacrums, and can even handle endgame bosses if you’re willing to spend some POE currency to equip it with the right unique items.

While it’s not a fast clearer, it can be very efficient when you commit to the right farming strategy. Not only does it give you the thrill of a rain of Divine Orbs dropping, but the entry cost is fairly low and more importantly it scales impressively into the late game, which is why this build has always been at the top of the popular build charts over the past year.

3. Explosive Concoction

Next up is Explosive Concoction, a pure League starter that can be used as a temporary build while you prepare for a real endgame setup.

For this build’s Ascendancy, Slayer class is the first choice for most players, but in fact, any class on the right side of the passive tree is applicable, and its flexibility determines that it can be your excellent League starter. Even if you don’t choose Ascendancy class, it can still help you get to the endgame, which is exciting!

4. Poisonous Concoction Of Bouncing Pathfinder

Then there is Poisonous Concoction of Bouncing Pathfinder, which is also a strong starter build.

Poisonous Concoction causes projectiles to bounce randomly in a non-linear manner, and the damage of the explosion scales according to the area of ​​effect.

Note that choosing this build as a starter does not mean you have to use it for the entire League. It is perfect for fans who are eager to build a small army of soldiers, starting with the low-cost and reliable Archer Skeletons, and transitioning to Skeletal Mage on a small budget.

If you like to summon an army to help you, then this build is definitely for you, it is arguably the best minion build for early leagues. It has always been strong, and the latest patch has given it some indirect buffs.

5. Flameblast Of Celerity Totem

Also, there is a very interesting build, Flameblast of Celerity Totem, which is probably the most buffed skill in POE 3.26 update.

It now does 660% more damage at the maximum stage, and the new gem quality increases its damage by 40%. Since you can get a gem quality of up to 104 by using Ashes of the Stars and buffing it to level 4, it means that the quality alone can cause 208% additional damage.

Therefore, the damage effect brought by this spell totem is absolutely ridiculous, you don’t even need to worry about aiming or charging, the patch gave it a better cast speed and lower mana cost.

6. Lightning Arrow Deadeye

Finally, my personal favorite Lightning Arrow Deadeye build is a lot of fun, traversing the map at the speed of light, leaping over enemies and firing thousands of projectiles. Although Arrow has been nerfed in POE 3.26 and doesn’t perform well on a budget, this is also the right starter build for you if you want to have fun.

In short, no matter what your play style is, you can find the best starter build for you here. Maybe you can try something new, they may bring you unprecedented experience!

Last week, after the developers of Path of Exile held a live broadcast about 3.26 Secrets of the Atlas League, they released a full description of the entire update, and the introduction of some new and improved features made many players look forward to this new league.

However, the changes to Shaper of Winter passive skill of Elementalist, Ascendancy class that players have always loved, have caused opposition from some players who are keen to use elemental damage such as freezing and frost to complete all campaign content, because its effectiveness has been greatly weakened compared to the previous patch.

But in fact, it is not. This guide will compare the current description of Shaper of Winter in the game with its update notes, and analyze for you from multiple attributes and statistics presented to you whether this change is a sign of the developers giving up this style of play or an early attempt to find a different way.

Some Changes

This 3.26 patch notes originally released by the developers state that the changes to Shaper of Winter include increasing the maximum Cold Ailments Effect by 50%, increasing Chills inflicted by each hit, and removing the previous effect of reducing enemy movement speed by 15% - 40%.

Instead, this Notable will only cause enemies that are Chilled by you to deal 50% of your Chill Effect. For example, if you can deal 30% Chill, the damage dealt by Chilled enemies will be reduced by 15%. Not only that, these already Chilled enemies will be more vulnerable to this longer duration damage, and the damage they receive will be increased by the Chills effect.

With this change, builds with Shaper of Winter Notable activated can still rely on strong offensive gear with high POE Currency investment to have strong Chills damage even when taking any type of hit damage, which is very suitable for encounters with monsters with strong offensive capabilities or elite monsters.

However, the developers made another change to Shaper of Winter Ascendancy Passive Skill in the patch notes of June 9 update: the previous slow down debuff of up to 40% was returned to players, which means that your powerful Chills damage and action speed debuff can help you complete encounters with more flexible bosses more easily and smoothly.

Is It A Loss?

Judging from the comments in the player community and social media, the biggest complaint from players about the changes to Shaper of Winter is that the developers removed a lot of direct damage buffs that players saw and added new effects that did not directly make their builds more powerful.

Yes?

But if those players calm down and analyze rationally, they are likely to modify their negative comments. First, before determining how much actual damage you can get from the modifiers that Shaper of Winter provides to Chills. If you only have this one damage type in your build, then a 30% modifier means you can cast 30% more damage.

It has to be said that in the more than ten years of POE development, there is no optimal build that focuses on only one source of damage. So if you add gear that can cast Unnerve debuff to your build and buy POE currency to increase your spell damage by 10%, then the actual damage gain from the modifier provided by this passive skill may only be 27%.

Of course, when making a build, you must add some crowd control modifiers, such as Shock debuff that make enemies stand still and vulnerable to damage, which can generally be up to 50%. With these modifiers working together, the additional damage provided by the modifier of Chill damage buff may only be 18%-19%.

In addition to this, like chaos damage, vulnerability, and physical damage modifiers that can be added to a build will reduce Chill damage bonus that the original Shaper of Winter had, preventing it from being able to reach its maximum effect.

So it was a very correct decision for the developers to remove this passive skill effect that is not conducive to players’ exploration in the game and balance the offensive and defensive effects brought by Shaper of Winter.

No!

First of all, the up to 40% enemy speed debuff that players had before is still there, so your build defense ability has been greatly improved. And reducing the enemy’s damage ability by half will put you in an advantageous position in the battle from the beginning.

Secondly, on the offensive side, you can combine Chill effect of this passive skill with Bonechill Support, so that you have higher cold damage and can more easily deal with enemies and bosses that have no resistance to this element type.

Not only that, in POE 3.26 Secrets of the Atlas League, the developers will bring some new Uniques to players, among which Ahuana’s Bite, a Unique Quiver, makes up for Chill Effect buff removed by Shaper of Winter in the build. And most importantly, it will not stack with other elemental damage affixes.

So in summary, Shaper of Winter changes are actually good news for builds that focus on cold damage, but builds with a variety of elemental damage may see some nerfs when using this passive skill, but it’s not a big deal.

Which builds are likely to be most affected by this change? Those builds with limited access to increased damage taken on the enemy are probably some of them. 

Of course, in the regular exploration process after the new Secrets of the Atlas League is released, we highly recommend heading over to the major communities and social platforms to find the build that works best for you. And here will continue to pay attention and introduce it to you. I wish you a happy game!

After the live hosted by the developers to introduce the new content contained in Path of Exile 3.26 Secrets of the Atlas, players are getting more and more excited about the arrival of this long-awaited new league, because some changes it has will greatly improve the game experience that players can get.

For example, the crafting mechanism. In all previous leagues, the crafting system can be said to be one of the most important game mechanisms in POE, because it allows all players to make a piece of gear that can be used to increase their own combat or defensive capabilities through some efforts, so as to explore more freely.

In Secrets of the Atlas, the developers have made comprehensive improvements to the crafting system, including the introduction of some new crafting mechanisms and improvements to some existing mechanisms, which will help you find Zana in Atlas more easily and complete all the campaigns in the game.

In order to let all exiles master it faster, here will be an in-depth discussion of the new crafting system in POE 3.26. However, it should be noted that since there is still some time before its official release, some properties or statistics introduced in it may change. Everything is subject to the official release.

New

In this League update, the developers have added two new crafting mechanics for players - Memory Strands and a new pinnacle crafting currency. Here are their specific effects.

Memory Strands

This new crafting mechanic is currently the highlight of PoE 3.26. You can find Memory Strands on the item description of high-tier loot picked up in Memory-influenced maps, and the value it has will affect the quality of the item after Scroll of Wisdom, up to 100.

Although the value of Memory Strands on the item is completely random, you can replace or add modifiers to it by applying POE Chaos Orb or Exalted Orb to make it more likely to generate a higher quality random affix for the item.

However, it should be noted here that Memory Strands cannot be used in other non-currency crafting methods, such as fossils or crafting benches.

Pinnacle Crafting Currency

Thanks to Zana, PoE 3.26 adds three new Pinnacle Bosses - The Incarnation of Dread, Neglect and Fear - who drop new loot with unique effects, such as Starcaller Axe, as well as some new exclusive crafting currencies:

• Orb of Remembrance: You can add random memory strands to normal items, or add memory strands to non-Memory-influenced Items.
• Orb of Unravelling: Consumes all remaining Memory Strands on an item to upgrade a random affix to a higher level.
• Orb of Intention: Adds an enchantment to Memory-influenced maps to reduce drop chances and increase the number of loot strands contained within the map.

Changes

In addition to the new crafting mechanics above, the developers have also improved existing systems in the game, such as Betrayal, Recombinator, and Syndicate crafting bench. Next, here will introduce them one by one.

Betrayal

In POE 3.26 Secrets of the Atlas, Betrayal league mechanic, which has existed for more than 10 years, has undergone a major change: Veiled modifiers that were previously unique to it will no longer be obtained through uncovering items.

Now, they have become the core of the current game. When you find some Veiled Items in a boss encounter or some endgame maps, you can right-click at any time to open Unveil screen, which greatly facilitates the player’s exploration process.

Betrayal changes bring back Veiled Chaos Orb to the game, which can allow you to reforge rare items with random modifiers and add Veiled Modifier to them.

However, in the current game content, it has been renamed Veiled Exalted Orb, and its effectiveness has changed a bit: it can remove a random modifier from an item and add a Veiled modifier to it.

Recombinator

Introduced in 3.25 Settlers of Kalguur league, Recombinator was very popular with players when it was first launched because it allowed you to combine two non-unique items with the same base into an item with a random combination of modifiers.

However, due to the randomness of the modifiers that are included in the final items, many players have received completely useless or extremely bad modifiers after handing in some items, which has caused a lot of complaints.

So in this update, the developers have added an option for players to choose their desired modifiers to make this random event a fixed event that players can create.

Syndicate Crafting Bench

In previous game content, completing the raid of Syndicate safehouses and spending POE currency awarded to you to craft high-quality gear was a favorite among players. Previously, players only received crafting materials and currency, but now, the crafting bench will also have pre-generated craftable items and other rewards.

Above are some of the new additions and production changes that the developers have brought to players with Path of Exile 3.26 Secrets of the Atlas. In fact, judging from the live and update notes held by the developers, this new league must be a carnival for new and old exiles, and everyone can feel the sincerity and repentance of the developers in it. I wish you a happy game!