Path Of Exile: Best And Worst Ranger Builds In Echoes Of The Atlas

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?