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

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

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

Farming Method

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

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

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

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

Some Tips

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

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

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

Usage

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Origin Of The Infamy

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

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

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

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

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

Developer’s Reflection

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

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

Some Promises

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Guessing Reason

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Patch Content

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

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

Runes

Farrul’s Rune Of The Chase

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

The Greatwolf’s Rune Of Willpower

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

Hedgewitch Assandra’s Rune Of Wisdom

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

Soul Core

Tacati’s Soul Core Of Affliction

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

Talisman

Talisman Of Thruldana

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

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

When starting any action RPG, leveling is an inevitable topic in the early stages, and this is also true for POE 3.26. However, some players only need a low level to complete the build, while others want to level up quickly and stay at a level they feel comfortable in order to continue to advance in the game.

Therefore, here we want to share some effective and low-cost strategies that can help you level up quickly, while running this fairly simple solo strategy, you can also earn some POE currency in the process!

If your build can handle this strategy, you will have an immense advantage in the early stages. It provides a very considerable XP gain, so you can reach the level you want very quickly. Without further ado, let’s take a look!

How Does This Strategy Work?

To achieve this goal, we will combine multiple mechanics and spawn monsters on the map as much as possible.

We will use a very cool thing called Evolving Shrine. This in POE 3.26 can increase the level of monsters on the map, which means that we can get as much XP as possible on each map by slaughtering monsters.

In addition to this, these Evolving Shrines also combine perfectly with the current mechanics of providing additional content for maps, of which Breach and Beyond are probably the best combination. In this way, by combining them, we can efficiently farm monsters and get additional multiplied XP by evolving monsters.

Scarab Selection

So, which Scarabs will we use initially? Actually, Double Breach Scarab is a good choice. Because this way we can get a decent number of Breaches, about four per map.

There is also Double Domination Scarab of Evolution, all of these basic Scarabs only require one Chaos Orb, so this is completely affordable for us.

The last Scarab here will be Beyond Scarab of the Invasion, which will provide us with rare and unique monster habitats, and killing monsters in this area will create 8 to 12 additional Beyond Portals. This way we have a very Beyond Portal on our map, which will greatly help us increase the number of monsters spawning from the portal.

This means that we only need to invest in a few POE Chaos Orbs in the map, and we can make our money back with the basic drops from Breaches alone, not to mention that the monster spawns here are as dense as bubbles, making it the best place to quickly farm XP.

Atlas Skill Tree

Now let’s talk about Atlas, which is basically a combination of Breaches and Beyond. But I strongly recommend adding Obsessed with Vengeance, which can increase the chance of encountering Syndicates on the map and increase the drop rate of Betrayal Scarabs.

In addition, Endless Tide is very important. This keystone prevents Beyond bosses from spawning, but it also halves the portal merging radius. This not only prevents Beyond mechanism from ending prematurely because of spawning bosses, but also reduces the number of extra Beyond monsters spawned during the portal merging process.

But we need to make sure that Beyond monsters appear as much as possible throughout the map, so it is very important to know how to distribute Endless Tide.

We also combine Scent of Blood with all Beyond opportunities and all possible Explicit Modifiers. It is very important to get all Explicit modifier bonuses, including Chiselled Perfection, Mounting Modifiers, and all small nodes. Because Explicit modifier will significantly increase your pack size, this is very important for the setup.

What Maps To Run?

We need to know what kind of maps to run for this setup. Generally speaking, I recommend running any map with a lot of space.

So a map like Mesa would be very effective, or a map like Strand would be good. You need to gather and defeat as many monsters as possible, and usually I aim for at least 30% on uncorrupted maps, so that we can more easily solve another interesting problem, which is about Delirium Orbs.

Delirium is an area-wide effect that spawns new enemies and strengthens existing ones, which is very useful for farming maps efficiently.

However, Delirium Orbs currently sell for about 9 Chaos each, so if you want to keep your strategy low-cost, you need to avoid adding Deliriums as much as possible. But if you just want to get as much XP as possible without regard to cost, then you can just click on any available Delirium Orbs on the map.

Is It Necessary To Run A Tier 17 Map?

Another interesting question is whether it makes sense to run a Tier 17 map instead of just a Tier 16 map?

In POE 3.26, Tier 17 maps may be worth a try, but be aware that this is not the best choice for every player. Because while Tier 17 maps offer larger monster pack sizes, more loot, and potential unique item drops, they also significantly increase the challenge.

So, if your build is not strong enough to handle these challenges at the beginning of the league, then you may turn the advantage of more XP into a disadvantage of more laborious farming and the risk of death at any time.

For these reasons, we would say that whether to try a Tier 17 map should depend on the strength of your character and your farming goals. If you are an experienced player, then don’t hesitate to run Tier 17 and push your XP farming efficiency to the top!

How To Optimize Your Strategy?

The last interesting question is how to make the entire run easier or faster.

Firstly, if you want it to be faster, I highly recommend using Flash Breach as this will make Breach on your map open and close 10% faster, which is a pleasant bonus.

Also, if you feel like you can’t finish the whole Breach in the allotted time, then it’s also a good choice to go for Heavy Breach, which will make Breach open and close 30% slower.

To make things easier, I think dropping Delirium is probably the best option, as Delirium currently adds a pretty big difficulty increase, which may affect our farming efficiency to a certain extent.

So, what we’re going to do is go for Heavy Breach, make sure to have Shrines, and drop Delirium completely. If your build can handle these Tier 16 maps quickly, you’ll also get a pretty decent amount of gold while running these maps, which is pretty nice.

That’s it! Hopefully, this leveling guide can help you reach higher levels in POE 3.26 as soon as possible to more comfortably advance any other content and have a better gaming experience in the endgame.

In the current Path of Exile 3.26 Secrets of the Atlas expansion, the developers have added a league mechanism called Mercenaries of Trarthus, which allows players to obtain an ally that counts as 0.5 players through combat and hiring during the exploration process-a mercenary.

Mercenaries also have the same build system as regular players, which means you can choose to continue using their original items or skill gems, or discard them and equip them with your own build options. Once this league mechanism was launched, it has gained the love of many players.

But unfortunately, during this week, the hot fixes released by the developers in the 3.26 patch have been suppressing the cooperative effectiveness of Mercenaries, such as reducing the damage of the skills they use in encounters and reducing the damage reduction of high-level Mercenaries.

This makes many players very dissatisfied, because in addition to the new end-game storyline, the most interesting thing for players in this league is the league mechanism of Mercenary as an ally, which seems to be shooting itself in the foot. But this does not mean that you cannot rely on this mechanism to complete the exploration of this league.

This guide will introduce you to a Mercenary build that can be perfectly matched with all the current popular Lightning builds. It can not only release damage exponentially, but also has strong survivability. Of course, the item options used here and some precautions will also be taught.

Best Mercenary Build Overview 

Previously, Storming Zealot Mercenary was one of the best Mercenaries in the minds of players. This is one of the Infamous Mercenaries that you need to defeat in the current level 78 or higher area.

Compared with other mercenaries, the item Dying Breath it has allowed you to provide a buff similar to an aura: increase damage and curse effects to nearby enemies, which is universal in any combat scenario.

Even the aura level it can have is much higher than what you can get by spending a lot of POE Currency. But since the developers have been nerfing it recently, many players who focus on Lightning builds have been forced to turn to Kineticist Mercenary.

Because this mercenary can give you a very important bonus, Haste, which will give you a buff to the movement speed, attack speed and casting speed of your mercenary allies. Even for those who use non-Lightning builds, just place a ring that adds an additional curse to deal super elemental damage.

It is also worth mentioning that in the Mercenaries of Trarthus league mechanism, since you can’t increase your hired mercenaries by adding experience points or spending crafting materials, you should choose it after you encounter a higher level mercenary and equip it with the most useful item options.

Best Item Options

The first item to choose for Kineticist Mercenary is Doryani’s Prototype, a unique Saint’s Hauberk that focuses on letting you cast Lightning damage.

In addition, choosing two rings that make your lightning resistance negative will make your mercenary and yourself very deadly in terms of lightning damage. So how can you ensure survivability after having enough damage?

In fact, although the developers have made many changes to Mercenary, its survival probability is still very high, so here are just some extra layers to its properties and statistics so that it can pass the test of Tier 17 Maps smoothly.

The first property to pay attention to is the ability to regenerate life per second. Compared with regular armor, the armor used by the mercenary provides weaker defense, and because of the changes to damage reduction, it is more vulnerable to more damage, so increasing the life's regeneration ability will make it more sustainable.

You can choose Dawnbreaker Colossal Tower Shield for this purpose, which will convert up to 20% of your lightning damage into fire damage, which can give you an advantage when fighting some monsters with strong lightning resistance but low fire resistance. And the blocking and armor it provides are excellent.

Or you can choose Immortal Flesh, which provides huge health regeneration and reduces resistance. For the other item options in the build, you can choose whatever you want, but as long as it can increase the health regeneration rate of you or the mercenary during the battle and have a high additional damage buff.

Also Read: Can Path Of Exile 3.26 Regain Its Former Popularity During The Development Of The Sequel?

Things To Note

First, in order to make your mercenary have super high lightning damage, you have controlled its resistance to lightning damage to negative numbers in advance, which may make it face more threats of death when fighting monsters or boss encounters with you that only cast lightning damage.

So it is best to check the player community or social platform before the challenge to check the weaknesses of this enemy and the elemental damage type it focuses on, so that you can invest more POE Currency in the mercenary’s construction at the nearest checkpoint to temporarily enhance lightning resistance.

In addition, some explorable maps in the current POE 3.26 contain elemental reflect modules, which will also put your mercenary in danger of having more chances of death, so you should avoid entering them, even if it can provide you with super rich loot rewards.

The above is the best mercenary build you can currently make in Path of Exile 3.26 Secrets of the Atlas expansion. Of course, the developers may make large-scale changes to the mercenary mechanism again this month or next month, and there may be better mercenary prototypes at that time. Let’s look forward to it together and wish you a happy game!

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

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

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

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

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

1. Flicker Strike Berserker/Slayer

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

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

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

2. Cyclone Slayer

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

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

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

3. Righteous Fire Chieftain

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

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

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

4. Death’s Oath Occultist

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

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

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

5. Essence Drain Contagion Trickster

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

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

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

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