NEWS GUIDE

As you all know, after more than 6 months of POE 3.25, the developers finally responded to the subsequent league update of POE 1, but we did not get any news about the 3.26 expansion, but instead announced that POE 3.26 would be postponed indefinitely. This news has caused a lot of anger among fans of the original game. Perhaps in order to calm the anger of the players, GGG recently chose to launch a new event, Legacy of Phrecia Event, to divert the attention of the players.

The event starts at 12 pm PST on February 20, 2025 and lasts until 1 pm PST on March 23, 2025. Players will face a series of unique challenges and experience major changes in the class system.

To perform better in this event, you must prepare an excellent build. Here we’re sharing our event starter build, Pyroclast Mine Polytheist, to help you get a head start in Legacy of Phrecia Event!

Build Overview

Recently, seeing the rise of Polytheist ascendancy class, we wanted to use it to make a build that uses skills with both Projectiles and Nova tags. The only skill that meets this requirement is Pyroclast Mine.

With Pyroclast Mine, we can hit the same enemy multiple times with a single explosion. First the initial explosion of Mine, then the projectile AoE for each explosion, and finally these fireworks-like explosions. If you like flashy builds, this one is for you.

What we’re showing here is mapping with Pyroclast Mine using a 4-Link setup, so how far can this setup take us?

In reality, since we need to stick to a budget and make sure we can complete Legacy of Phrecia Event with the least amount of POE Currency cost, our equipment is pretty crappy, focusing mainly on life, resistance, and a few attributes. Tremor Rod in particular is definitely the most cost-effective choice for this build, and should at least get you into red maps.

In addition, we only use 2 Auras, Grace and Summon Skitterbots. Since Flammability is tied to Arcanist Brand and Detonate Mines is tied to Automation, it will trigger automatically.

It is recommended that you can get Detonate Mines Skill Gem as early as possible to save extra clicks. If you don’t want to invest in it, there is a Mine Mastery that also allows you to detonate mines while moving. You can unassign it when you don’t need it.

Although we don’t use Astral Projector in this build, so sometimes the explosion won’t fall on the boss, the overall damage feels good, especially when we get Ascendancy, which will be more powerful.

Ascendancy

For Ascendancy, we would grab Devout of Lunaris first. The quality of life brought by this node is unparalleled. However, if you want more defense, then you can get Devout of Garukhan or Devout of Solaris first, and finally Devout of Ralakesh, mainly because we are already using Charged Mines Support.

Passive Tree

Now, let’s move on to the passive tree for this build. We have different levels of the tree, so if you don’t know which nodes to choose, you can follow the upgrade tree here. We usually start with some damage and life nodes here, and then go to Shadow. Also, get all Mine nodes, Life nodes, and Reservation nodes here, and then finish the build at level 95.

Gem Setup

Next, we have different gems set for endgame and early/mid game. You can re-check them when you are ready to lower your health.

If you are using Pyroclast Mine of Sabotage, you can change it here. However, it is not recommended that you switch to it before getting Mana Reservation node and equipment.

Pyroclast Mine of Sabotage does much more damage than normal Mine, but it also reserves much more mana than normal Mine. So, until you can switch to Transfigured Mine, just use the normal Mine. They function the same, the only difference is the amount of damage.

In addition to Grace and Summon Skitterbots, this build also uses Discipline. It is connected to Arrogance to preserve life instead of mana, so that we can do Pain Attunement when life is low, giving us 30% more spell damage.

Once you get Whispers of Doom anoint on your Amulet, you can use another curse, which is Assassin’s Mark. Before getting Pyroclast Mine, you can upgrade as you usually do with Templars, that is, use Rolling Magma, Holy Flame Totem and Flame Wall.

Gear Setup

Now, to the most important part, the gear.

The gear for this build is very simple, you just need to focus on getting life, resistance and attributes. Among them, Mine Throwing Speed ​​should be made on your weapons and helmets, which will make a huge difference and provide you with a smoother map experience.

You can also try to get a belt with Mine Throwing Speed, or make your own using Essence of Zeal. Once you get enough POE currency, you can slowly upgrade your gear.

Since this is an evasion character, it has low health, so getting energy shields is also important. So we use Evasion Base or ES Base as our armor, combined with Grace and our Ascendancy, our evasion chance should be pretty high.

Another important stat is spell suppression chance. Although there are some on the passive tree, it should be easy to limit spell suppression if your gear is all rare. What’s more, you should also have your Eldritch Mods at this point.

Note that the endgame setup of this build is expensive. It’s only for those who really want to invest in the build and try some of the hardest content in the game. If you’re just using this build to accumulate some Divine Orbs and move on to the next build, then I think you can stop at the mid-game setup.

Victario’s Influence is a great body armor for this build. You can even get up to +4 gem levels with Corruption alone. Additionally, it provides higher reservation efficiency, which is very necessary for Pyroclast Mine of Sabotage, and the increased AoE and aura effects are obviously nice to have as well.

Finally, Replica Dragonfang’s Flight is great for boosting our damage, as it provides 3 additional gem levels. This reservation mod is great, as it also reduces life reservations for Discipline.

Anyway, that’s all for this Pyroclast Mine Polytheist build. Hopefully, the servers will be stable during Legacy of Phrecia Event, and we’ll see you there!

As you explore Act 2 of Path Of Exile 2 Early Access, you’ll chase Risen King through a desert area and defeat many other monsters along the way, before reaching Dreadnought, the end of the massive caravan, where you’ll fight Jamanra, the Abomination.

Although you’ve fought him before in previous content, Jamanra will appear in a new form in this fight and use completely different moves and mechanics, so don’t take him lightly just because you’ve fought him before.

As such, this guide will show you how to find and completely defeat Jamanra in Act 2 so that you can feel more confident and prepared for this challenging encounter.

Jamanra’s Location

As just introduced, Jamanra, the Abomination, is the final boss in Act 2. It is located at the end of Dreadnought Vanguard. You can find it after Dreadnought map. After passing through these two areas, you will reach Saddle of Dreadnought, where you will see Jamanra waiting for you.

You don’t have to worry about missing this boss, because it is part of Trail of Corruption quest. Only by successfully defeating it can your main quest move forward. But here I need to remind you that before entering the arena between you and Jamanra, it is best to spend a lot of POE 2 Exalted Orbs on your combat endurance and defense at the nearest checkpoint, because this is a boss with two combat phases.

Jamanra’s Actions

Only by knowing all the attacks of this boss can you avoid all of them in time and accurately and find the opportunity to attack it, so here are the different specific attacks used by Jamanra in each phase and some strategies you can use.

Phase 1

During this phase, Jamanra, the Abomination, will primarily attack you with his lightning-damaging spears, so you may want to place some gear with high lightning resistance in your build. If you invest more POE 2 Currency in gear, it may make your entire battle process smoother and easier.

In addition, some damage cannot be avoided, so you will need to use a lot of potions to help keep your health at a healthy level. This phase will last until his health is below 65%, at which point Jamanra will become unable to aim and destroy the entire arena, which means you are about to enter the second phase of the fight. Here are all the specific moves for the current first phase.

Spear Throw

Jamanra will throw a lightning spear in your direction. The advice here is to dodge it before it lands, which will maximize the chance of avoiding this spear with huge damage capabilities. In addition, the boss will use this attack repeatedly throughout the fight, so be careful.

Thunder

Here, the boss will still throw spears at you, but two of them and they do not deal elemental damage. They will explode when they land and then deal high damage to the area.

When you see these two spears flying towards you, move away from them to avoid getting hit. The final explosion damage is also quite large, so you should give yourself more room than you think you need.

Spire Chain

Jamanra will fire his spears in the same direction and then chain them together with lightning, which will cause additional lightning chains in the process. The evasion strategy you can use here is similar to Thunder Spires. Just avoid them as much as possible so that you can hit him hard from a larger safe range.

Spire Rails

During this action, you will see Jamanra’s spears move around the inner and outer circles in the center of the arena, releasing continuous lightning chains between the two circles. Normally, one spear will move clockwise around the inner circle, while the other will move counterclockwise around the outer circle, so try to stay out of range of both spears and stay away from the lightning chain in the middle.

Lightning Wave

The boss will send out a wave of lightning from both of his hands and move those lightning waves to either side of him in a sweeping motion. Since this attack starts at the front of the boss, you can try to move behind Jamanra quickly to avoid the powerful impact.

Sandstorm And King’s Attendants

At this point, you will see a sandstorm start to blow from one side of the arena, and King’s Attendant enemies will begin to spawn. There will be an NPC named Asala who will help you create a barrier to protect you from the sandstorm, so stay behind the barrier while you kill all the mobs that spawn.

Tracking Spires

Jamanra will pick up his spears again and let them fly around at random intervals. When they get close to each other, they will turn to attack you and send lightning chains between them. Because the position of the spears is constantly changing during this attack, you must also keep moving. If you are unfortunate enough to be hit, you should also use flask charge on yourself in time to restore your health quickly.

Phase 2

Phase 2 takes place in a slightly larger arena and features a new set of attacks. Here are all the moves that Jamanra uses in Phase 2.

Tornado

Jamanra will summon a number of moving tornadoes around this new arena, dealing heavy damage along the way. The boss can summon 2-3 of these tornadoes at once, so be sure to avoid them as they move.

Lightning Sword

In addition to the tornadoes, the boss will summon a sword overhead that is infused with lightning and then slammed into the ground in front of the boss, dealing heavy damage. Note that Jamanra will track your movements slightly before slamming into the ground, so wait until the last minute to dodge.

Spear Sweep

This is the first time the boss uses a spear in Phase 2, and it will sweep forward in a large arc to deal damage. You can avoid this damage by hiding behind the boss or moving away from him when the spear appears.

Spear Throw

This attack is an advanced version of the attack of the same name from Phase 1, where Jamanra throws a lightning spear that deals damage in a wide area when it lands. You can dodge this attack in the same way, but be careful to dodge at the last second.

Lightning Rocks

You will see black rocks appear around the arena, and they will chain together and emit lightning. Unlike Spires in Phase 1, these rocks do not move, so you just need to avoid walking through them.

As you can see from the above tricks, this phase can get very confusing, as all kinds of projectiles will fly all over the screen. Fortunately, each projectile has a relatively low damage capacity, and their main purpose is to distract you from the boss’s sword attacks.

These are some of the specific methods and strategies you can use to defeat Jamanra successfully in POE 2 Early Access. Hopefully, you can successfully complete this somewhat tough boss encounter with the help of this guide, and get the loot and experience points you need. Have fun!

As you run through maps in Path of Exile 2 Early Access, you can use Waystones that have been upgraded or have different modifiers to increase the difficulty of your exploration and obtain special rewards of higher quality. This mechanic also applies to Trial of Sekhemas, but here you need to spend POE 2 Items as Unique Relics.

These items will add some debuffs to the Trial of Sekhemas you are running to increase the difficulty of the fight against the final boss of Trial, Zarokh, the Temporal, but will reward you with special rewards that have significant benefits to your character. This guide will give you a detailed description of the types of Unique Relics and how to farm them to help you check the power of your build and DPS so that you can use them in the game.

All Unique Relics

There are 6 types of Unique Relics that you will encounter in the current POE 2 Early Access. It is important to note that all Unique Relics are onetime items, which means they will be destroyed after a single run, regardless of whether you have successfully completed Trial of Sekhemas or not.

Below are the names of the types of Unique Relics, the debuffs they add during the Trial, and the rewards they provide. You can choose these special offers based on your needs.

1. The Last Flame

This Relic will keep your maximum Honor at 1 in Trial of Sekhemas, which means that if you are hit by an enemy skill that damages Honor in Trial, you will most likely die. So you need to add some gear with strong Honor resistance to your build in such a Trial, and throw a lot of POE 2 Divine Orbs into it.

With the help of this Unique Relic, Zarokh will drop a Temporalis after you defeat it, which greatly reduces the cooldown of all spells of the wearer, allowing them to use their most powerful spells continuously without waiting for the timer.

2. The Peacemaker’s Draught

This is probably the most important debuff of all Unique Relics. It will leave you with no natural defense ability at all, and you can only rely on the armor or helmet gear in your build to achieve some very weak defense against Zarokh. This may require you to be extremely mobile and flexible so that you can avoid all attacks from this final boss in time.

If you defeat Zarokh in this difficult of Trial of Sekhemas, the number of Djinn Barya you get will increase significantly, which is the exclusive POE 2 Currency in this trial.

3. The Burden of Leadership

Although POE 2 has a unique map refresh mechanism, which allows you to have a very fresh gaming experience when exploring the same map at different times. However, this mechanism does not apply to Trial of Sekhemas, so if you farm in this trial many times, you can easily find a suitable place to farm POE 2 currency or Uniques.

But if you invest in The Burden of Leadership in this trial, it will make all the rooms on your Trial Map unknown, which will not only give you a very fresh exploration experience but also allow you to learn more strategies and skills to fight against enemies. After you successfully defeat the final Boss, you will find Sekhema’s Resolve in the drops.

4. The Remembered Tales

During your Trial of Sekhemas run, you can get some Boons after clearing each room, which is a buff against enemies you have in the next room. But in Trial with this Unique Relic, you will not be able to get Boons, so the difficulty of your battles in subsequent higher-level rooms will be greatly increased.

But fortunately, you can get Blessed Bonds after successfully defeating Zarokh, the Temporal, which will cause elemental exposure based on critical hits and status effects, and help you increase energy shield and dodge levels.

5. The Changing Seasons

The Last Flame just introduced will keep your maximum Honor at 1 throughout the trial, and this one will prevent you from restoring Honor in it. Once you suffer Honor damage, your Honor will become less and less, which will also greatly reduce your chances of survival in the trial.

In this case, Sandstorm Visage you get from the final boss might make the hard fight worth it, as it increases your maximum Energy Shield by 80-120, and Dexterity by 20-30.

6. The Desperate Alliance

The previous few are for debuffs throughout Trial, but this Unique Relic is for Zarokh, increasing the boss’s damage by 100% and reducing the damage it takes by 75%, which should make this already difficult boss encounter even more challenging.

But I think the final reward of Against the Darkness will balance it out a bit. When you place it in the jewel slot in your build, Small and Notable Passives around it will gain some additional modifiers.

How To Get Unique Relics?

Currently, there are two ways to get Unique Relics in POE 2. One is to defeat Zarokh, the Temporal, and find it from its loot during the regular run of Trial of Sekhemas. But it should be noted that you need a Djinn Barya of level 75 or above to invest in it.

The other way is to get it directly from the trading market in the game and other players using POE 2 Divine Orbs. It is worth reminding you that no matter which method you use, you may need to spend a lot of time and energy to cultivate, so please be mentally prepared.

The above is the specific role and acquisition method of Unique Relics in POE 2. I hope you can have a better experience in exploring trials and get better special rewards with their help. I wish you a happy game!

Path of Exile 2 has been in Early Access for several months now. After a period of freshness, players have begun to study the best routes, maps and bosses to farm in it, because the game only provides players with which bosses can provide some unique rewards, but does not clearly explain how to farm them repeatedly.

There are currently multiple ways to farm bosses in POE 2, the most common of which is to reset the instance and use new waypoints. For Console players, hold down the button to move to a new map, while PC players need to choose to hold down Shift key and click to create a new area copy when selecting the map icon or map transition.

However, if your build is not strong enough, or the level is not high enough, using a new waypoint to re-run the map that was easy to pass before and challenge the bosses you are familiar with again is also a more effective way to farm. When you enter the endgame stage, you can use the waypoint device, which is where the opportunity to farm bosses and Uniques appears.

After understanding the specific methods of farming, you can start to consider the bosses you want to farm. Given that there are many bosses in POE 2 that provide you with challenges, this guide will introduce you to some of the most worthy types of bosses and specific bosses in the game to facilitate your exploration.

1. Some Accessible Minor Bosses

When you start to have the awareness of farming bosses, you should start this operation from those maps that are easier to pass, preferably those maps with accessible minor bosses. In this way, you can easily upgrade when you re-run this familiar map and obtain skill gems, auxiliary gems, gear and POE 2 Currency as loot.

These minor bosses actually appear on many maps, such as Executioner in Ogham Village, Kabala Constrictor Queen in Keth, and Mighty Silverfist in Jungle Ruins. You can try to farm them.

2. Bosses In Each Act

Compared to the small bosses in previous maps, the bosses in each act of POE 2 game content will give you a higher chance of getting more and higher quality loot, but the efficiency of farming them is not clear because there is no clear loot list for such bosses in the game.

So if your build is strong enough and can clear the last map and boss faster than the previous maps in Act, then your farming efficiency is high. If you can’t meet this condition, you can try to invest a lot of POE 2 Divine Orbs in the clearing efficiency of your build first, and then farm, which may make your farming process easier.

Since POE 2 Early Access only provides players with three acts of game content, such bosses will appear in the current game’s Ogham Manor, Dreadnought Vanguard and The Black Chambers, and the gems and gear provided to you here are of higher levels.

Note that when you reach the endgame, you will need to farm the pinnacle versions of these bosses in Citadels, which will reward you with fragments that unlock the encounter against Arbiter of Ash.

3. The King In The Mists

While this boss from Freythorn side quest in Act 1 provides you with good loot here, its endgame version is more worth farming because it offers more potential Uniques, such as Beetlebite Velour, Ingenuity, and The Burden of Shadows.

The ritual altars you encounter in Freythorn will also appear randomly in the harder endgame maps, and completing them will earn you POE 2 currency to unlock an item called An Audience With The King. You can place it in Realmgate in Atlas to trigger your fight against the pinnacle version of The King In The Mists.

As with all endgame bosses in POE 2, you can also increase the difficulty of the entire fight by modifying the points on Atlas skill tree passive. Of course, as the difficulty increases, the chances of getting better Uniques, such as Pragmatism and From Nothing, also increase.

4. Olroth, Origin Of The Fall

When you enter the endgame of POE 2, you will use Waystones of different levels or with different mechanisms to unlock those maps so that your character can face distinct challenges. Olroth is the boss that appears in those maps with Expeditions.

But it should be noted that it is difficult to cultivate it on the map, because its appearance is completely random, and you can only start the battle with it when you meet an NPC named Dannig. Dannig is responsible for the expedition log in the game. You can find its whereabouts in your hideout to check your exploration progress.

After you start the expedition with a log of level 79 or above, there is a chance to generate an encounter between you and Olroth. At this time, a skull mark will appear on your map, which means you need to dig or cultivate it.

Normally, it will reward you with gear such as Keeper of the Ark, Olrovasara, Svalinn Crucible Tower Shield, Heroic Tragedy, and Olroth’s Resolve, but unlocking a map with this encounter with more modifiers or higher-level Waystones may reward you with better loot, which requires your own exploration.

5. Trialmaster

If you want to get more loot in a single battle in POE 2, try Trials, which is probably a more efficient endgame activity to farm. When you start the endgame version of Trials of Chaos with an Inscribed Ultimatum at level 75 and above, you will encounter a battle between you and Trialmaster.

This boss requires you to pick up 3 fate fragments in the battle with the mini-boss in the tenth trial to open it, which will give you a chance to get any boss-related Uniques, such as Glimpse of Chaos, Hateforge, Mahuxotl’s Machination, The Adorned, and Zerphi’s Genesis, as well as some Vaal loot obtained in trials, which is more valuable than previous farming.

The above are the 5 most worthwhile bosses to farm in the current POE 2 Early Access. You can choose the boss you want to farm based on the strength of your build or your game style. I hope that after understanding the principles and methods of farming bosses in the game, you can complete these operations more easily and maximize their effectiveness. I wish you a happy game!

In Path of Exile 2 Early Access that has swept the world some time ago, there are many boss encounters for you to challenge. Some enemies are overshadowed by many of the bosses from the original game, and some are harder to fight than the original game’s final boss, with Viper Napuatzi being the most classic example.

Viper Napuatzi is a boss at the end of Act 3 and is also a prerequisite for you to unlock the encounters with Aggorat and Doryani. Because of its very high elemental resistance and multiple Chaos-based attack moves, it has become one of the most tough bosses in your POE 2 campaign.

To help you die less in battle with Viper Napuatzi, this guide will provide you with detailed information on the encounter with Viper Napuatzi from three aspects: pre-battle preparation, in-battle strategy, and post-battle rewards, allowing you to enter Aggorat faster and explore more.

Pre-Battle Preparation

First, let’s take a look at where you’ll find Viper Napuatzi. In Act 3 of POE 2, you’ll receive a Legacy of the Vaal quest that will have you explore Utzaal, the area where you and Viper Napuatzi’s arena are located. Note that this battle area is level 43, which means you should be level 50 or above before fighting this boss.

Given that most of Viper Napuatzi’s attacks will cause Chaos damage, you’ll need to choose some skills or passive skills for your character that have resistance to this type of element. For example, you can activate Chaos Inoculation on your POE 2 passive skill tree, which will protect you from all this elemental damage.

However, your health will pay for this, so you may want to invest more POE 2 Currency in Energy Shield value in your build to keep you safe. For active skills, you can try to choose Spark or Lightning Arrow, which can form a better attribute stack and will effectively help you complete this battle.

Skills like Tempest Bell and Frost Wall are also useful during your fight with Viper Napuatzi, as they can pin the boss in one place, making it easier for you to use your subsequent attacks. In fact, you can also gain a permanent 10% Chaos Resistance by completing The Slithering Dead quest, but some of the battles in the quest can be time-consuming and labor-intensive.

So the easiest way to improve your character’s defense is to put some of these Uniques in your build, such as Serpent’s Egg, Oaksworn Sigil Crest Shield, Snakebite, Ghostwrithe, and Amethyst Ring, which will allow you to complete this encounter in a safer state. Alternatively, you can equip Antidote Charm to gain temporary poison immunity after Viper Napuatzi casts poison damage.

In addition, this encounter takes place in an arena that gradually shrinks over time, so the movement speed in your build should be kept at a high level to avoid all of Viper Napuatzi’s attacks in the small arena effectively. Again, the easiest way to achieve this is to invest a lot of POE 2 Divine Orbs in your boots or other mobility gear to make them higher in rarity or quality.

This range of arenas combined with no other monsters spawning will cause your Flask Charges to drain very quickly, so you can install Gains # Charges Per Second mod on it, which will give you an outstanding quality of life in POE 2.

In-Battle Strategy

Currently in the game, Viper Napuatzi has two types of attacks: Spear Attacks and Unarmed Attacks. It should be noted that since the space of this arena is very limited and will shrink over time, most attacks are very difficult to dodge. But don’t worry too much, here will introduce you to all the attacks used by Viper Napuatzi, as well as some strategies that can be used in actual combat.

Spear Attacks

This is the combat used when you and this boss first fight, and it will switch to Unarmed Stance after 80% of its health is left, and finally switch back to Spear Stance when the remaining health is about 10%.

• Spear Throw: Viper Napuatzi will throw a spear with poison damage to you. You can judge the final landing position by its throwing direction, and then dodge in any direction.
• Lightning Spear: The boss’s spear will split into four lightning projectiles and then shoot at you, and will also bounce off walls, so you should avoid standing near walls so that you can dodge the erratic projectiles by sideways.
• Melee Combo: When you are close to Viper Napuatzi, it will launch a melee combo three times, and you will see a poison cloud in the air after the attack ends. If you touch it, you will suffer a lot of poison damage. So avoiding this, you can dodge backwards twice and then roll in any direction.
• Forward Dash: In this attack, the boss will dash forward in a straight line and spray poison in the path to cause area damage. Here, just roll in any direction to dodge.

Unarmed Attacks

If you can't rely on Viper Napuatzi's health reaching around 80% to tell when it's about to enter Unarmed Attacks, you can also tell when it's about to switch attack types by seeing it thrust its spear into the ground.

• Meteors: During this phase, Viper Napuatzi summons meteors, a boss helper that explodes on impact and deals with fire and chaos damage. Keep an eye out for the red and purple circles in the arena and stay away from them.
• Slam Attack: The boss will jump into the air and slam the ground, creating a range that deals heavy damage. So when you see him fly into the air, roll back to avoid that slam.
• Snakes: In addition to meteors, Viper Napuatzi summons snakes that wander around the arena and bounce off the walls. The main damage type of these snakes is also chaos damage, so you’ll want to stay away from walls and stay as close to the center of the arena as possible to avoid other attacks that combine with them and kill you.
• Poison Darts: In this move, the boss will directly lock onto you and fire a barrage of poisonous projectiles at you, ending with it throwing multiple projectiles in a cone. Although the best direction to dodge this attack is also in any direction, roll towards the boss at the end of the attack because the projectile damage range is away from the boss.
• Spear Thrust: During this attack, be careful of the soldiers around the arena. Whenever you see their spears glow, it means they will thrust, dodge in any direction. At the end of this attack, all soldiers will perform this attack. Ideally, you will dodge when you see the spears glow green, but this requires you to be very agile.

Post-Battle Rewards

Like most of the quest bosses in POE 2, there will be no exclusive drops after you defeat Viper Napuatzi, but some POE 2 Currency and items obtained from the loots are also very useful. Additionally, after you complete this encounter, your quest log will be updated, and you can then head to Aggorat to fight Doryani, the final boss of Act 3.

That’s it for how and some strategies you can use to defeat Viper Napuatzi Boss in the current POE 2 Early Access. Hopefully, with the help of this guide, you can better explore Act 3 in this sequel, and successfully unlock the subsequent more challenging Cruel difficulty or endgame stages. Have fun!

Generally speaking, when you first start playing POE series, you will be used to thinking that single-player games are the main way to play. In fact, whether it is POE 1 or 2, the class mechanism design also allows you to experience it in solo form all the time. But I must remind you that sometimes it is better to team up with other players.

As you know, in Path of Exile 2, each class has its own skills and characteristics, and plays a different role in battle, but no matter how powerful you are, you can only output damage of one class when playing a single-player game. So if you can team up with players who play different classes, the synergy between you will allow you to earn more POE 2 Currency than before even when facing difficult enemies.

Based on this, we will mainly recommend 8 feasible different class combinations for you in the form of two-person and three-person teams.

1. Witch & Warrior

In combat, Warrior can engage enemies head-on, while Witch can support Warrior teammates by summoning minions, as well as various built-in enemy debuffs and ally buffs. In fact, some of the support skills available to Witch that affect minions are also designated to gain Ally buffs, which will affect other players teamed with Witch, but this effect will be better for Warrior.

However, since Witch’s own survivability is relatively poor, if you want your Warrior teammates to not be distracted to protect you as a Witch, you’d better use your POE 2 Chaos Orbs in advance to exchange some gear that can provide shields or increase maximum health.

2. Warrior & Sorceress

These are two classes that can achieve a highly complementary state, but the specific effect depends on the build you and your teammates use.

If you are a Sorceress player who focuses on lightning damage, you can increase the damage taken by enemies by causing shocks, making them vulnerable to the powerful melee strikes brought by Warrior teammates. But if your Sorceress builds are focused on dealing cold damage, you can control the crowd and mitigate the damage your team takes by freezing the enemies.

In addition, Warrior can draw enemy aggro and help Witch keep enough distance from the enemy, while also dealing high stun damage and elemental damage.

3. Monk & Ranger

Since both classes’ popular skills involve lightning damage, cold damage, or both, when you and your teammates team up under the premise of playing them, you will have amazing synergy between you. This means that if you apply the same elemental effect to the enemy at the same time, the elemental disease will trigger faster, thus dealing more damage to the enemy while doing better crowd control.

Another reason to recommend the combination of the two is that Ranger’s shooting skills such as sniping can allow other Monk players to trigger Tempest Bell skill by aiming at it, and amplify the damage caused.

4. Monk & Witch

The cooperation between Monk and Witch can bring powerful damage output by working together, and they both have the option to deplete the enemy’s health by using a lot of chaos damage quickly.

However, another better option for this combination is to let Monk teammate focus on early damage, while you can provide curse support as a Witch to weaken the enemy, and you can also support Monk in melee by summoning minions while spreading the weakening effect from a distance.

5. Mercenary & Sorceress

If you know these two classes, you will know that they are both ranged classes, which may make you think that they are not suitable for combination, but in fact they can work well together. While Sorceress is outputting cold damage, Mercenary can use Fragmentation Rounds to consume the enemy’s frozen and detonate ice crystals to cause devastating damage.

In addition, Mercenary’s Oil Grenade can greatly enhance the damage caused by Sorceress, or enhance the spread of ignition damage of projectiles by using Flame Wall, because it will cause fire exposure to the enemy. And the crowd control effect output by Sorceress can also work well with Mercenary’s grenades.

6. Witch & Mercenary

If you play as a Mercenary in the early game, you will find it troublesome to reload and switch ammo types while dealing with enemies. At this time, a Witch teammate who can use the front line of minions can effectively alleviate your difficulties, because the minions will disrupt the enemy and give you more time.

And Skeletal Frost mages of Witch, which are centered on cold damage, can quickly trigger the freezing effect, allowing you as a Mercenary to focus on damage output.

7. Witch & Warrior & Sorceress

In fact, even without considering the influence of class, the number of three players is enough for you and your teammates to overwhelm the enemy easily on the basis of concerted efforts. If there are Witch, Sorceress, and Warrior in the team, you can let Warrior cover the front line with the help of minions such as Skeleton Reavers, while letting Sorceress output damage from the back.

Or you can have Sorceress use ice walls and cold damage to zone and crowd control, allowing Warrior to eliminate the controlled enemies, and Witch can provide more ranged elemental damage through minions.

8. Monk & Mercenary & Sorceress

This combination has amazing DPS potential because they can both provide aggressive crowd control and elemental abnormalities, and use these abnormalities to trigger larger damage bursts. For example, Monk can output cold and lightning damage, and can also use Tempest Bell to enhance other effects.

In addition, Mercenary and Sorceress can both output lightning, cold damage and frozen cumulative effects, and use other skills to detonate the frozen effect to cause more damage.

How about it? After our introduction, can you wait to find a few teammates to try it? Without further ado, act quickly!

You will explore three acts of the popular Path of Exile 2 Early Access game, each with unfamiliar landscapes and story missions. In Act 2, you will travel to the Vastiri Desert and pursue Beast of Corruption.

In this process, you will first need to assemble Horn of Orbala, and its three parts are distributed in three different missions. The City of Seven Waters quest to find Essence of Water is arguably the most difficult of the three missions, as you will have to fight against Azarian, The Forsaken Son, who guards this essence.

Although your build is relatively mature after reaching Act 2, your combat ideas and strategies may not be enough to fight against Azarian, so this guide will give you specific instructions on how to find this boss and some countermeasures and strategies you can use against its attacks, so that you can defeat it as quickly as possible and obtain some very valuable loot.

Azarian’s Location

As mentioned earlier, Azarian, The Forsaken Son is the final boss of The City of Seven Waters quest, which will take you to Keth in Act 2. So after you pass through Keth, Lost City, and finally Buried Shrines, you will see Azarian guarding the tomb of Water Goddess.

What you need to pay attention to here is that your fight with Azarian will take place in a square arena, so you will clearly see that this arena has a border. But don’t rush into it yet. Please check if your build is strong enough at the nearest checkpoint.

Moves Of Azarian

After you prepare a strong build, you can start to step into the arena where you fight Azarian. You need to pay attention to the fact that there is a large brazier in each corner of this arena. No matter you or Azarian, as long as they hit one brazier, they will explode and spread the fire to all corners of the arena. So please put some gear with good fire resistance in your build as much as possible and spend some POE 2 Exalted Orbs to upgrade them to the highest level possible.

Also, if all four braziers are destroyed, most of the arena will be covered in fire, with the center being the safest location. Don’t rush into them, though, as Azarian will frequently move to your position and attack from the center of the arena, so keep moving to avoid taking more serious damage.

Below is every attack Azarian will use during this fight and some ways to deal with it. However, since each player’s play style is different, some strategies can be modified, but always stay safe.

Flaming Advance

First, Azarian will charge forward in a straight line while spinning his weapon in the air, dealing damage with each swing. But you’ll see that the boss has a charging phase before it attacks you, which you can use to dodge and cast some damaging skills at it from a safe distance.

Fireball Toss

At this point, you’ll see Azarian thrust his arms into the ground and throw a few cone-shaped fireballs. This attack sometimes creates a wall of fire along the path of the fireballs for a few seconds. Note that the fireballs thrown by the boss will be in the opposite direction of the direction it pulled them out of the ground, so you can easily determine the direction of the fireballs and dodge them.

Flame Shot

After casting Fireball Toss, Azarian will bring you another attack with fire damage - Flame Shot. Here, he will open his arms back and then extend them forward, shooting a cone of fire. So you can move to his sides to avoid this attack when his arms start to open.

Flame Slam

Azarian’s move is pretty predictable, as he’ll raise his arms and then slam them forward in two short cones of fire. The boss will turn slightly when he uses this attack, so dodging as soon as you see him raise his arms will probably get you hit. You should wait until the last possible moment to dodge, which is most effective.

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Best Strategy

Azarian, The Forsaken Son, will use this set of attacks throughout the fight. The most important move to focus on here is Flame Slam, as it deals the most damage and cannot be avoided. In addition, the fire pots that are always present in the arena are also important to pay attention to. Try to avoid breaking them, otherwise your fight may become more difficult.

For the build you use, ranged builds are safer than melee, because most of the attacks cast by the boss can be broken from a long distance. However, when the fire pot explodes, the ranged build will be more affected, because this will force you to get close to the boss in the center of the arena, putting yourself at a disadvantage.

In general, the key to defeating Azarian is to learn its attacks and timing constantly, so that you can successfully obtain the last Horn of Orbala fragment and a large amount of POE 2 Currency and other loot. I wish you a better way to defeat it with the help of this guide and have a good gaming experience!

In the popular Path of Exile 2 Early Access, there is a unique Ascendancy mechanism, which allows you to upgrade your previous base class to the corresponding Ascendancy Class by completing designated trials. Of the two trials currently available to players, Trial of Sekhemas has become the subject of discussion among many players because of its extremely high challenge and fun.

In this trial, there is a very powerful scorpion enemy called Ashar, The Sand Mother, which is the boss you must fight to achieve third character Ascension. It will test your character’s strength to see if they are worthy of ascension. So only by defeating Ashar can you introduce unique specializations for your character from the new Ascendancy Class.

Given that Ashar’s battle difficulty is very high, this guide will introduce you to how to find Ashar and how to deal with all the attacks used by Ashar, which will allow you to know all the difficulties you will face in this encounter in advance and effectively bring back the last Ascendancy Points.

How To Start The Encounter With Ashar?

As mentioned above, you will find Ashar, The Sand Mother in Trial of Sekhemas, which is a Trial that can only be opened after you defeat Balbala, the Traitor in the main story mission of POE 2. You need to take Balbala’s Barya dropped by this boss to an altar in Trial of Sekhemas node on the map to open the challenge in this area.

As for Ashar, you need to defeat the other two Ascendancy Bosses in Trial of Sekhemas to have the right to see him. Another requirement is that you need to have a Djinn Barya of level 60 or above to enter the arena where Ashar spawns.

It is worth reminding you that you will defeat some enemies from certain Trial levels in this Trial and gain a unique resource called Honour, which is both a kind of POE 2 currency and a health resource. Once you lose all Honour, you cannot continue to complete Trial of Sekhemas and cannot face subsequent Ascendancy Bosses.

According to many players, there is enough Honour for you to collect on the third floor of the Trial chambers to open the way to the arena for you and Ashar. Before fighting Ashar, The Sand Mother, make sure you have accumulated more Honour than the amount required to unlock this boss, so that you can ensure that you can survive the boss battle longer.

In addition, it is recommended to interact with the nearest checkpoint so that the place where you respawn after dying in the boss battle is not too far away from the arena. More importantly, you can check whether your build is powerful enough here. If you are missing, you can also spend some POE 2 Exalted Orbs here to upgrade the gear in your build to enhance their effectiveness.

After you have enough Honour and a powerful build, you can interact with the altar on the third floor of Trial of Sekhemas. You will see the door in front of you open and there is a staircase leading to Ashar’s room. When Ashar rushes out of the ground, the arena will rumble, so the encounter is about to begin.

Ashar’s Attacks

Knowing your enemy is the key to success, so let’s take a look at the attacks Ashar will use in this fight so that you can make more accurate and effective responses.

• Poison Blast: The boss will shoot multiple poisonous projectiles from its tail that can be aimed at your character. You will need to roll to the side to avoid any damage.
• Claw Strike: It will raise one claw back and then quickly jab forward, which will damage anything it hits. You can move to the side or dodge while the claw is pulled back so that you don’t get hit by the follow-up jab.
• Stinger Swipe: Ashar will inject some energy into his tail and then sweep it around in a circle, causing heavy damage to anything in the radius. Remember to dodge forward, and the best safe area is Ashar’s back.
• Toxic Slam: The boss attacks forward with its poison-filled tail, trying to stab the target in front of it. Since this attack move has no warning, you will need to prepare potions or flasks in advance to restore health.
• Desert Flip: Ashar will dig both claws into the ground and roll forward, using its tail to support the sand of the arena. Ashar will also use the projectiles fired from Poison Blast to attack enemies while it’s in the air. Again, you’ll need to move to the side or duck when you see the claws come out to prevent it from tumbling, then dodge the projectiles as you would in a normal Poison Blast.

Best Strategy

All of Ashar, The Sand Mother’s attacks are very fast, and one of the best strategies for this fight is to roll forward as much as possible to get behind Ashar so that you have room to avoid his melee attacks. For tail attacks, you can hide on the tail barbs so that those high-damage moves have no effect on you.

In addition, one of the best ways to deal with the bosses in Trial of Sekhemas is to use gear with Honour Resistance to reduce the damage done to your character, preferably good Boons without Afflictions, which can help your character reduce weaknesses during boss encounters in Trial of Sekhemas.

After each boss completes a Desert Flip attack, it will dive underground, then burst out of the sand and repeat. You need to be aware that when Ashar dives in and out of the sand. It leaves a small area of ​​quicksand behind it, which will have a certain debuff effect on you, and there is a high probability of building up multiple harmful status effect stacks in the process.

The trade-off of this quicksand is that it reduces your mobility, making it harder to dodge Ashar’s other attacks. So keep your balance and avoid stepping on pressure plates, which will make it easier to dodge Ashar’s melee attacks.

That’s how you can find and defeat Ashar, The Sand Mother in POE 2, and the strategies you can use. After you successfully defeat this boss, you may get the third set of Ascendancy Points, which can make your character more powerful for subsequent challenges. Have fun!

As you explore the three acts of Path of Exile 2 Early Access, you will face many boss encounters that will test your current build and game sense, and your encounter with Tor Gul in Act 2 is the most typical example.

Tor Gul, The Defiler is a major boss in Trail of Corruption quest in Act 2, and is the encounter you need to go through to collect the fragments of Horn of the Vastiri. It is also the second-to-last boss you encounter in Act 2 and has unique combat moves and mechanics.

Given that your encounter with Tor Gul is difficult, this guide will show you how to find Tor Gul and how to deal with each of his attacks so that you can defeat him in one go and get through the entire quest area with a strong build.

Location Of Tor Gul, The Defiler

You will find Tor Gul in the main quest at the end of Spires of Deshar area in Act 2, before you find Deshar, which is made up of many small rooms, and Path of Mourning, which is made up of many small domes.

At this stage in Act 2, your build may actually be mature enough to withstand some battles from mid-to-high-level enemies, but be aware that Tor Gul is a boss in POE 2, so in order to defeat him in one go, you should still spend a little more POE 2 Exalted Orbs on some powerful gear to enhance the offensive and defensive capabilities of your build.

Moves Used By Tor Gul, The Defiler

Once you have a powerful build ready, you can enter the octagonal arena where you fight Tor Gul, and you will see him quietly waiting for you in the hole in the center. Here are all the attacks he will use during the battle and some strategies and precautions for you to deal with him.

Claw Rake

First, you’ll see Tor Gul has very long arms, and when it starts to retract its arms, you need to watch out for its right-to-left attack. Generally, you can just hide behind it to avoid this damage, and this boss is very vulnerable at the beginning of the fight, so you can cast more damaging skills.

Skeleton Vomit

Like most bosses, Tor Gul will spit out several skeleton enemies from its body to help it complete damaging you as soon as possible. These vomits will continue to stay in the arena and will cause more damage over time.

What you can do is try to kill the skeletons that are summoned early, and use crowd control or group damage skills as much as possible to maximize the damage. Most importantly, avoid standing in the vomit pool, otherwise you will suffer unbearable damage.

Fire Strike

In this attack, Tor Gul will open his chest and shoot several fireballs, which will fly randomly to the area in front of the boss. Obviously, to avoid these fireballs you should stand on the boss’ back when it stands upright and attack it fiercely.

Another strategy that players often overlook is that you can force attack its arms so that it keeps firing fireballs from its chest and cannot do more damage. This is very risky, because Tor Gul’s position is constantly changing, and it is possible that the safe area in the past few seconds will be in danger because the boss turns, but it is also a combat strategy that is worth trying.

Head Smash

Likewise, Tor Gul will stand upright before using Head Smash, but you can tell which move it is using by its arm movement. If the arms are open, it’s a Fire Strike; if the arms are up and slamming its head, it’s a Head Smash.

Although these moves deal two types of elemental damage, the boss’s back is always a safe area, so put more gear that can give you fast movement buffs in your build so that you can get to a safe point in the shortest time.

Hand Crush

In this move, Tor Gul’s hand starts to slam at you, dealing extremely high damage. Since this slam is very fast, it is difficult to avoid this attack, so you can only add some defensive capabilities to your build or carry a few flasks or potions that can be used to restore health.

However, if you can keep an eye on the boss’s hand and have the ability to predict the direction of its hand slam, you can safely avoid this attack at the last second, but this may require you to invest more POE 2 Currency in your mobility.

Flamethrower

Besides Fire Strike, Tor Gul will also use Flamethrower to deal extremely high fire damage to you. It will directly spit fire and then slowly turn around, using itself as a flamethrower to cover half of the arena in a sea of ​​fire, and the damage caused will gradually increase over time.

So when you see Tor Gul start to spit fire, please immediately run to the other side of the arena. The animation time of this attack is very long, so as long as you are safe, you can use this opportunity to deal more damage to the boss. But remember to avoid the flames around the arena that will continue to damage you as you move, as well as Tor Gul’s other attacks.

Bombs

When you see orange marks appear in the arena, it means Tor Gul will start to crouch and create some bombs for you that can deal heavy damage. Note that the explosion range of these bombs will be larger than the mark indicates, so take this into account when dodging the bombs.

Flame Tornados

When Tor Gul uses a bomb attack, it will sometimes create Flame Tornados on some of the orange marks, which will last for a few seconds. In fact, this is the easiest move to avoid, because you will have already avoided them when the bomb mark appears.

Strategy

In this battle, the key to winning is to keep moving and hide behind the boss as much as possible, which will make it very easy to avoid all attacks. Even if Tor Gul reacts and starts to turn to attack you, you will have plenty of time to react and dodge in time.

Additionally, this fight involves a lot of chip damage and damage over time, so it’s important to have plenty of potions in your build and use them effectively. For example, Tor Gul’s skeleton vomit and the continuous fire in the arena can cause you continuous damage, and you may not see them when you are busy dodging other attacks.

You also need to put more gear that can provide you with fire resistance and physical resistance, such as Ruby Rings and fire resistance Charms, in your build to increase your chances of survival greatly. However, it is important to note that you don’t have to change your entire build for this fight, as there will be bosses with opposite damage mechanisms waiting for you to challenge later.

After defeating Tor Gul, you will enter Dreadnought, which is the final location of Act 2. The above are some specific methods and strategies for you to challenge Tor Gul, The Defiler in POE 2. I hope you can complete this encounter well with the help of this guide and harvest a lot of loot. I wish you a happy game!

In the months since Path of Exile 2 Early Access release, there have been a lot of powerful endgame builds, one of which is Infernalist Witch build that focuses on Minion’s offensive capabilities. Although the enemies in the endgame in POE 2 are fewer but higher in quality, if you choose the right options for this Minion Army Infernalist Witch endgame build, it will have a very good chance of completing these arduous battles.

Since making an optimal build requires a lot of effort and time, this guide will introduce you to some build options that can be placed in Minion Army Infernalist Witch Endgame Build, such as gear and skills. However, it is worth mentioning that the build ideas provided here are based on maximizing damage or defense capabilities, and you can also adjust them according to your play style.

Optimal Gear

Since it is based on Witch build, it is necessary to pay special attention to the gear that can provide super high defense capabilities. For example, armor that provides maximum Energy Shield is crucial to survive and maintain your health in battle.

But you should be reminded that poison damage cast by enemies can bypass this defense property and directly damage you, so you can also choose some hybrid pieces that provide armor and shield values ​​for yourself, which is also an important factor in ensuring that your character can safely pick up POE 2 Currency rewarded to you after the battle.

For this Minion Army Infernalist Witch Endgame Build, the other two must-have specific item types are Scepters and Amulets. The former is the way the Witch summons minions, so it should require a very high Spirit boost to summon minions continuously and provide them with high damage, attack speed or movement speed.

For the latter, it is best to choose a suitable Solar Amulet, because this will further increase the maximum Spirit in order to provide bonus levels for those skills that summon minions. As for offhand weapons, you can choose between shields that can increase defense or Wands that increase damage.

On the stats of the boots, you should prioritize those that provide movement speed buffs and Intelligence buffs, which will help the Witch’s mana pool increase significantly so that it can use better skills in PoE 2. It is worth reminding you that your boots should be upgraded or have affixed with a lot of PoE 2 Exalted Orbs before entering the endgame stage to provide you with better effectiveness.

Some secondary stats to focus on in Minion Army Infernalist Witch endgame build are maximum life and elemental resistances. With the help of these right gear, Witch’s survival rate in those more tough fights will be greatly increased, and it is even possible to become a tank-like character.

Best Skill Gems

Because of the unique skill gem mechanics in POE 2, the skill gems used in a build will represent the player’s preferred play style in the game. According to many social media and communities, the most popular skill gem options for players in the endgame stage are Reavers and Arsonists.

Reavers will use their high damage and the support of Archer Support Gem to attract the attention of the boss and knock it down, allowing you to pick up the dropped loot faster, but this will also put Witch itself in danger of fire damage. Arsonists are safer than Reavers and will not cause huge damage to themselves, but it also means that they are under great pressure to survive.

Besides these two skill gems, there are other options that have contributed to the effectiveness of Minion Army Infernalist Witch Endgame Build, the most important of which are Skeleton Clerics, which can heal or revive other minions, and Pain Offering, which buffs existing minions or damage.

Detonate Dead is also a must-have, as it helps Witch use her minions to create countless corpses to help her clear out all the enemies. If you prefer the elemental damage dealt by Witch, you can also choose Pyromancer Infernalist, which will use the same core Witch minion skills, but with excellent fire damage.

After choosing the main skill gems, you can put Raging Spirits Spirit Gem, Flame Wall, and Flammability into your build as needed. If you have skill slots to spare at this time, you can also put skill gems such as Solar Orb that can quickly cast fire spells in it.

Best Passive Skills

Choosing passive skills in Minion Army Infernalist Witch endgame build is probably the easiest part. Most of the skill points should be spent on improving minions beyond the three basic attributes. So you should look for clusters of nodes that increase the damage, maximum health, and elemental resistances of minions in the huge POE 2 passive skill tree.

While minions are generally hard to survive against super tanks like bosses, if you choose to spend the above passive skill points and spend a lot of POE 2 Currency to upgrade them to the highest level, they have a good chance of surviving these waves of enemies.

The remaining skill points should be used to maximize the defensive capabilities of Witch build, with energy shields and elemental resistances being the top choices, which will work perfectly with armor.

If you prefer offensive capabilities, you can also choose some offensive passive skills for them, but then your minions’ damage capabilities will be reduced, and you may need to think carefully because minions are the focus and damage dealer of this build.

The above are some of the most suitable build options you can currently choose for the best Minion Army Infernalist Witch Endgame Build in POE 2. Once again, the attributes and statistics of the above skills and gear are based on what the current game provides, and may be changed in subsequent patches or leagues, and we will continue to pay attention. I wish you a happy game!