Path Of Exile: All Rewards For Zizaran's Gauntlet

Some classes have been carried over from POE 1 to POE 2, such as Ranger and Witch, which means that the builds that maximized these classes in the first game can continue to work in Path of Exile 2 with minor changes. In addition, it has been half a year since the launch of POE 2 early access, and even the new POE 2 exclusive classes should now have popular builds guides so that you can directly enter the game to utilize them.

There is no doubt that in this way, if you happen to join the game after Dawn Of The Hunt is online, the existence of those popular builds will greatly save you time and energy in crafting new builds in POE 2. But to be honest, this will also make you rely too much on your inherent experience, so that you will be at a loss when encountering some tricky combat dilemmas.

Considering this situation, this time we will combine the recent progress of POE 2 to recommend you 5 unpopular but useful off-meta builds to provide you with more combat possibilities.

1. Corrupted Blood Warbringer Build

This build is crafted with Barrier Iron Buckler as the core. Through the protection effect of this round shield weapon and Corrupted Blood it can trigger, you can inflict more physical damage on the enemy.

In fact, compared with other round shield weapons, the special feature of Barrier Iron Buckler is that in addition to the protection effect, it can also increase your blocking chance, chaos resistance and life recovery, and the specific damage value caused by Corrupted Blood depends on your maximum health.

On this basis, it is recommended that you match Warcry as the main skill for this build. Warcry can provide buffs based on the number and strength of enemies near you.

Since the core of this build is Barrier Iron Buckler gear, it is recommended that you buy POE 2 Currency in time if conditions permit rolling better modifier effects for it, which can also make the entire build more powerful.

2. Blackflame Autobombing Infernalist Build

This build revolves around Black Flame and Detonate Dead. The former is a unique amethyst ring that can increase your chaos resistance by 7-13%, mana regeneration by 15-30%, and ignite strength by 50%, and make enemies you ignite take chaos damage.

As for Detonate Dead, it is a level 7 spell-type skill. After equipping it in the skill slot, it can detonate the corpse of an already dead enemy, causing 28 to 43 points of fire damage and physical damage equal to 20% of the corpse’s maximum health to the remaining enemies.

It is worth noting that although the power of Detonate Dead skill makes the entire build very attractive, this skill requires your character level to reach 22 and the intelligence attribute to reach 52 to obtain it.

3. Barbed Cry Warbringer Build

This build is a bit like Thorns Warbringer Leveling Build with Empire’s Grasp Titan Mitts added to it, to further enhance the damage done by thorns to enemies.

Empire’s Grasp Titan Mitts is a unique glove in the game. As a level 52 armor, it can increase your armor effect by 150-200%, as well as 20-30 points of strength, and each time you kill an enemy, the glove will increase your health by 30-50 points.

The thorns are actually a modifier on the gear, and the reason why it is combined with Warrior Ascendancy class of Warbringer is that you can get a lot of scavenged plating when breaking armor to increase your output of armor and thorn damage.

4. Blackflame Incinerate Pathfinder Build

Yes, another POE 2 build with Black Flame as one of its cores, which is enough to prove that this ring is indeed a piece of gear that cannot be underestimated in the game. Another factor that makes this build work is Pathfinder, one of Ranger Ascendancy class.

The advantage of this Ascendancy class is that it improves your survivability, poison damage output, and mobility through flasks, poison, and mobility. On this basis, combined with the chaos damage provided by Black Flame that has been introduced to you, you will have the opportunity to utilize this build to kill enemies flexibly.

5. Storm Mage Lich Build

As the name suggests, the core of this build is Lich, one of Witch Ascendancy class, combined with the latest Storm Mages Build for POE 2 patch 0.2.0.

The charm of Lich is that it outputs a lot of damage to the enemy through mana, and Storm Mages can be used as a minion-type build to quickly clear a large number of enemies. The combination of the two makes Storm Mage Lich the most suitable build for POE 2 Currency farming among the 5 builds introduced this time, and it can also deal with some bosses.

Compared with the characteristics of regular builds that focus on basic classes, the 5 off-meta builds introduced this time focus more on the utilization of specific gear and Ascendancy classes. If you like this style of builds, you might as well choose one that suits you and enter Path of Exile 2 to try it out!

In the latest Path of Exile 2 Dawn of The Hunt League, developers have largely weakened the large number of popular skills in the original classes in order to make Huntress, a new class, the player wants to try the most. These changes dealt an unprecedented blow to mainstream builds, but at the same time brought fringe but powerful builds into the player's sights, garnering the support of most players in just a few days.

If you have completed the endgame stage of your current league and want to explore POE 2 once again in a completely different style from the usual game rhythm, then this guide will introduce you to several current niches that can give you a different gaming experience, which may become your best choice.

Here, you can not only understand the specific effectiveness and applicable scenarios of these builds, but also get some skilled gems and suggestions or recommendations for supporting gems. But it should be noted that the recommendations here are the best options obtained by modifying the game content by the current latest patch, and may change in the subsequent process.

1. Explosive Shot Mercenary

Mercenary has become the most popular class since the release of Path of Exile 2 Early Access because of its crossbow and related projectiles that are completely incompatible with the game theme. But unfortunately, after the player’s freshness about it is exhausted, the actual frequency of use is not too high.

Because its ranged attack effect is not as strong as that of Witch or Sorceress, it does not have the super high flexibility that Monk class has to deal with different combat situations in melee effects. But if you focus on Explosive Shot skills in this character building, the effect may be completely different.

Explosive Shot gives all the projectiles you equipped with a chance to cause super fire damage and explosion damage to the enemy, and the explosion it generates will also cause the grenades you fired before to explode. This makes this build ideal for use in some profitable maps with large groups of enemies, as super fast removal efficiency can make you a fortune.

More importantly, the skill rotation you need to perform in this build is also very simple: just cast Explosive Shot and shoot an Exploding arrow, and then use different Herald buffs effects to eliminate all enemies.

But it should be noted that Herald buffs require you to have a lot of Spirits to consume, so you may need to buy POE 2 Currency early in making builds to add more affixes to your amulets that provide you with extra Spirits.

Not only that, in the selection of gears other than crossbows in the build, you should also choose as much as possible that those that can benefit your survivability, because its poor flexibility may cause it to suffer a serious blow to some challenges with faster combat pace.

Recommended Skill Gems And Support Gems

• Explosive Shot: Scattershot & Martial Tempo
• Herald of Ash: Fire Penetration
• Herald of Thunder: Lightning Penetration & Culling Strike
• Herald of Ice: Cold Infusion & Cold Penetration

2. Spiral Volley Deadeye

If the high shooting aiming accuracy required for Mercenary build just introduced will discourage you, Spiral Volley, a skill that quickly clears group enemies without aiming, may be more suitable for you.

The most important thing is that Spiral Volley skill has been enhanced in recent patch 0.2.0, so when you pair it with Frenzy Charges, you will cast more damage.

Or you can combine skills such as Spiral Volley with Stormcaller Arrow or Herald of Thunder, and you will have one of the most efficient mapping builds in Path of Exile 2.

But it is worth reminding that these builds can only have higher effectiveness when your character level reaches level 52, and you need to spend more POE 2 Currency to cause higher damage to single targets or bosses.

Recommended Skill Gems And Support Gems

• Spiral Volley: Perpetual Charge & Ricochet
• Combat Frenzy: Profusion
• Stormcaller Arrow: Martial Tempo
• Herald of Thunder: Lightning Penetration & Culling Strike

3. Fireball Icewall Stormweaver

The easiest combo to pick up in POE 2 is definitely Fireball and Icewall, as their casting mechanics are very simple and have some single-target damage: just cast Frost Wall to create an ice wall, then cast Fireball on it to break it for significant explosion damage.

Or you can use Frost Bomb to directly detonate the ice wall, and then pair this combo with Spell Echo to deal more freezing damage to those single-target enemies. However, since this build is not very efficient in clearing, it is not used by many people in the endgame stage.

Recommended Skill Gems And Support Gems

• Frost Wall: Icicle & Glaciation & Spell Cascade
• Fireball: Scattershot & Unleash & Ricochet & Wildshards
• Frost Bomb: Magnified Effect & Fast Forward & Spell Echo
• Hypothermia: Persistence & Heightened Curse
• Cast on Freeze: Comet & Impetus & Inspiration

The above are some of the niche builds in the current Path of Exile 2 Dawn of The Hunt league that are worth trying for players who have fully experienced all the challenges the game has to offer and want to explore in a different play style. I hope that with their help you can have a unique gaming experience and find different fun. I wish you a happy game!

No matter what play style you have in Path of Exile 2 Early Access, solid defense is always the focus of your build, so you may need to spend a lot of time to find the best armor.

Of the many armor options, Tabula Rasa that came with Patch 0.2.0 can be said to be the most prominent one, because it provides you with an additional 6 item slots that are applicable to all builds, and it has no requirements for the three most important attributes in the game (Dexterity, Strength, and Intelligence).

Given its versatility, this guide will introduce you to the farming methods and specific effectiveness of Tabula Rasa, the iconic body armor in the game, as well as your use strategy during combat, so that you can get it in the latest league as soon as possible and maximize its effectiveness.

How To Farm Tabula Rasa?

Because Tabula Rasa is one of the most difficult Uniques to obtain in POE 2, so there are usually only three ways to farm it: drop, use Orb of Chance, and trade. Next, we will introduce the farming efficiency of these three methods and the techniques that can be used in each of them.

Drop

Although Tabula Rasa can be dropped from any monster you kill in POE 2, its extremely high rarity means that it will only appear in some later maps with higher difficulty and higher drop modifiers.

It is worth noting that according to the strategy provided by the developer to the players; you have a very high chance of obtaining Tabula Rasa after running Tier 10 map; but from the actual exploration of many players in it, the probability of seeing this armor after regular mapping is very small.

Therefore, it is highly recommended that you use Precursor Tablets, Atlas tree or gear with affixes that can greatly increase the rarity and quantity of map drops to help you increase the efficiency of farming Tabula Rasa.

Alternatively, you can unlock Foiled Tabula Rasa by defeating a Level 81 or higher monster with Twilight Reliquary Key, but getting this key to unlock the loot may require you to buy POE 2 Currency to obtain super high survivability and combat ability in the encounter, which is more difficult.

Orb Of Chance

If you don’t want to go through the very boring farming and grinding, you can also apply Orb of Chance to Normal body armor of the same name to upgrade it to a specified rarity.

Although this farming method allows you to quickly obtain Tabula Rasa, Orb of Chance may also destroy your own body armor: it will turn the item you apply into any unique body armor, and there are currently 63 such items in the game, which may take a lot of attempts.

So not only do you need to spend more currency to complete this operation, but more importantly, you may not be able to obtain Tabula Rasa you want most.

Trading

If you don’t want to face the extremely difficult grinding, nor do you want to experience the high-risk gambling, then you can only obtain Tabula Rasa through trading with other players. Here is a very clear explanation here, because Tabula Rasa body armor is very rare and it faces a wide range of applicable people, its trading price is also very high - about more than 130 POE 2 Divine Orbs.

By the way, POE 2’s latest Dawn of the Hunt league has brought a lot of new game mechanics to players, including a new enemy called Rogue Exiles. Currently, Tabula Rasa will also be provided to you as a drop reward in this mechanic, but this may change according to the league changes.

Tips

Although the basic form of Tabula Rasa does not provide any defense or attribute bonuses for you in POE 2 exploration, the 6 slots obtained from it are available for you to place skill gems, which means that you can easily obtain 6 additional skills with unique effects without spending too much.

Most importantly, these skill gems can be installed or removed at any time, which will allow you to make different combinations of skills and gear according to the task or challenge you are currently facing: you can use the 6 gems in this group to complete a boss encounter; or change a group of skill gems to complete some profitable map farming.

The advice here is to match some gems that can provide you with movement speed gains and high critical hit chance or critical hit damage in Tabula Rasa as much as possible, because they can greatly improve your damage ability and clearing efficiency in any challenge.

But when you are stuck in a high-level map, you’d better replace Tabula Rasa with any armor that can provide you with defensive capabilities, because each map will have a maximum number of deaths, once exceeded you will be unable to explore the rest.

Although Tabula Rasa cannot be changed by currency or items in POE 2, you can try to apply Vaal Orb to it to add hidden effects, such as providing higher buffs to inserted gems, which are very important in the more difficult endgame stages in POE 2.

The above is a detailed introduction to the farming methods and usage strategies of Tabula Rasa armor in the current POE 2 Dawn of the Hunt league. I hope that with the help of this guide, you can obtain this special item faster and maximize its effect so as to have a better gaming experience. I wish you a happy game!

Path of Exile 2 has been the center of discussion among loyal players of the action role-playing game since its early access release last year. Although the developers have added many new game elements to this sequel that were not in the original game, the player community and players on many social platforms have been negative about it.

Even after POE 2 released its first major update and the first league Dawn of the Hunt some time ago, players’ complaints about the low drop rate and drastic nerfs of in-game loot have not changed at all. According to some relevant information leaks, the developers are taking some actions, such as releasing some hot fixes and additional changes in patch 0.2.0.

But in order to ensure that POE 2 can be in the best state before the official version is released and can provide players with a best exploration experience, it may also need to add an important feature - death review. At this stage, players are very demanding for this feature, so this guide organizes players’ views on it so that developers can create corresponding strategies according to players’ requirements more quickly.

Developer’s Thoughts

In the production process of POE 2, developers have always wanted players to explore the huge game world in a slow-paced gameplay, and make the best build that suits them best according to the different exploration contents, until they reach the end of all battles.

However, in this game with slow and methodical gameplay, once the player dies in it, the cost invested before drawing, such as currency, gear, and one-way available Waystones will disappear, which is a very sad thing for all players, especially in the extremely challenging endgame stage.

Most importantly, players must learn from the corresponding experience from the failure just now, and then buy POE 2 Currency to upgrade their own builds accordingly, such as enhancing the overall defense ability or elemental resistance of the build to obtain better survivability. Or re-roll the affixes of the potions that can restore health or mana that they carry to obtain higher combat durability.

Players’ Thoughts

The developers thought this style might resonate with players, but in fact they didn’t buy it. Because the one-way available Waystones used in POE 2, on the one hand, the cost of drawing in the more difficult maps will also increase. On the other hand, if there is no death review screen in the game, it is difficult for players to find the real reason for death from the failure just now, which will make players more frustrated.

Because in most cases, the death of players in battle is not only caused by the ineffectiveness of the build they used, but also by mistakes in skill rotation or network jams, or even because of the excessive visual effects presented by the game, which makes players use wrong operations.

After these deaths caused by non-game mistakes, players may not need to make large-scale adjustments to their builds, and they want to clearly understand where they made mistakes and modify them in time, but unfortunately there is no such educational function in POE 2.

Although Path of Exile 2 Dawn of the Hunt has made some adjustments to reduce the degree of punishment for players’ death in the endgame, such as being able to create a new instance map after death and use Waystones with the same modifiers to enter it for a new round of exploration. But this cannot solve the genuine dilemma of players.

In fact, there are already many calls for the death review function in the popular action role-playing games in the current game world. Even Diablo 4, a powerful rival of POE 2, has been called by players to add this function, but they are indifferent.

So after Last Epoch, a common rival of POE 2 and D4, released Season 2 Tombs of the Erased, some disappointed players began to enter this more interesting game, because there are many features that players dream of, such as death review.

Even some players who have tried these two games called for POE 2 to learn from these features in Last Epoch in the next version to make themselves more competitive. Although the developers have not explicitly stated that they will consider adding this feature, players are still looking forward to it, because its popularity has become a trend just like couch co-op.

In general, because the difficulty of building and endgame in Path of Exile 2 is very high compared to similar games, the learning difficulty of players will also become higher. Therefore, if a death review screen is added, it may make it easier for them to learn from the experience of this battle and complete subsequent challenges faster.

Because the addition of this feature will improve the accessibility of the entire game, it is very useful for both novice exiles and high-level exiles. This will also indirectly lead to more new players pouring into POE 2, thereby expanding their influence. Like the players, I will also wait and see whether the developers can implement this new feature that can greatly improve the player's experience in the official version.