How to Choose Your Favourite Build at League Start in POE 3.20: Theory and Recommendations

This month, Path Of Exile 2 launched a major update that not only brought the latest Dawn of the Hunt league to players, but also brought a lot of new endgame mechanisms. The most noteworthy one is Rogue Exiles, who will use the same skill gems as the players and carry a Unique that you can pick up after the battle, which will make it more challenging.

In battle, you may find that the skill operations of these Rogue Exiles are more difficult to deal with than ordinary enemies or even Bosses because they are controlled by AI, because they can accurately dodge most of the attacks cast by the players and react to them, making the whole battle experience very close to PVP style.

Of course, like the enemies in POE 2, Rogue Exiles also have some difficulty level classifications. There are currently 12 prototypes of Rogue Exiles, and their difficulty will vary depending on Unique they carry. This guide will introduce you to the most difficult Rogue Exiles in the game, as well as the strategies you can use in battle so that you can successfully obtain the loot it contains.

1. Maligaro’s Virtuosity

In the exploration of POE 2, any player who is keen on using critical hits to defeat enemies or bosses in the most enjoyable way must be very much in need of the super high critical damage bonus provided by Maligaro’s Virtuosity gloves: on the basis of the default 100% critical hit, plus a 300% gain, this is the damage ability that most monsters cannot withstand.

So when this super high critical hit bonus is given to Rogue Exiles, any critical hit will kill you in one hit. This requires you to remain highly vigilant in the battle with it so that you can successfully dodge most of the stray bullets it fires.

Although this is one of the strongest exclusive Uniques that can be equipped in Rogue Exiles, they’ll likely be found in non-boss specific loot chests, so you’ll likely be fighting them equipped with the same gear.

The advice here is to find and equip some gear that matches it, such as gear that can increase your critical hit chance. Or you can buy POE 2 Currency to upgrade your gloves before you encounter it, so that you can have better affixes.

2. Defiance Of Destiny

In addition to gear that can provide critical hit bonuses, Rogue Exiles will also carry Defiance of Destiny, a gear that can increase survivability, to challenge you. It can restore 10% of the enemy’s just lost health before being attacked.

Although this endless health recovery will make you feel that Rogue Exiles cannot be truly killed, in fact, as long as your maximum attack damage directly exceeds 10% of its maximum health and continues to attack damage, it is very likely to kill it before the enemy recovers its health.

3. The Coming Calamity Heroic

In the campaign provided by POE 2, elemental resistance is very important, whether in the endgame or leveling stage, so The Coming Calamity Heroic, which makes your nearby enemies have no elemental resistance, can be said to be an indispensable armor in exploration.

But after Rogue Exiles has this gear, things may become less optimistic, because they have super strong all-element resistance, and this Unique effect will make you lose all elemental resistance, and you are in an unequal combat state from the beginning.

If Rogue Exiles has a powerful skill combination in this situation, it will be difficult for you to confront it head-on. So what you do in the battle is to keep a longer combat distance from Rogue Exiles as much as possible, and try to use some long-range active skills to cause more physical damage to it.

4. Beira’s Anguish

Also focusing on elemental damage, Rogue Exiles equipped with Beira’s Anguish will also deal 25% of their maximum health to nearby enemies after casting a skill that can ignite enemies.

This potential damage, which is adjusted according to the health of Rogue Exiles, can be the most difficult to deal with in combat, and a single cast can cause massive damage to your health. However, since this Unique effect takes effect only when you are taking fire damage, it may be your focus to dodge those skills that can cause fire damage in time.

Unlike Maligaro’s Virtuosity, even if you have Beira’s Anguish in a strong build focusing on fire damage, try to avoid confrontation with Rogue Exiles wearing the same gear, otherwise it may not be worth the effort.

5. Birth Of Fury

In the current POE 2 game process, many players will carry Birth of Fury to some endgame maps with more benefits, such as loot, POE 2 Currency or experience points, because it can create a burning ground in battle, causing 10% of its maximum health per second to group enemies.

When Rogue Exiles was first launched, due to its very high health, the damage caused by Birth of Fury may be several times the health of some medium-level players, so many players complained about it.

Fortunately, the developers listened to the players’ suggestions and reduced the total health of Rogue Exiles by 40%, which alleviated this problem. However, you still need to be extremely careful when you encounter enemies equipped with Birth of Fury during exploration, and enhance your fire resistance.

The above are the 5 most difficult Rogue Exiles types to fight against in the current POE 2 Dawn of the Hunt league, as well as some precautions for you in encounters with them. I hope this guide can help you have more chances of winning when you encounter them and smoothly take over the Uniques you need from them. I wish you a happy game!

In the ongoing Path of Exile 2 Dawn of the Hunt league, the newly added Huntress is a hybrid class that focuses on both melee and ranged attacks, and is good at using its spear to deal with various situations in combat. However, in the current game, many players are more accustomed to playing it as a character that casts ranged attack damage.

Here, Huntress build with Lightning Spear, a spear skill as the core has become the main choice for players who like ranged combat. Although this skill may cause low damage to enemies in early exploration, if you choose some correct support gems for it and other skills that can match it, your build will be very suitable for the leveling stage that requires fast map clearing and efficient farming.

Since there are more than a hundred support gems, skill gems, and gear belonging to Huntress in the current game, this guide will recommend some of the most suitable options for Lightning Spear Huntress build for you, as well as some precautions you need to pay attention to during the battle.

Build Overview

As mentioned earlier, since the core of Lightning Spear Huntress build is this powerful spear skill, all other options in the build are basically based on maximizing its damage, while using the electrocute effects provided by Wind Dancer, Ghost Dance, and Electrocute to provide you with strong defense.

When you are fighting against some bosses or enemies with strong survivability, you can use Storm Lance as your auxiliary attack skill, which will help you have higher single-target DPS. At the same time, Lightning Spear will also be enhanced to a certain extent by the addition of Storm Lance, so you will have amazing damage capabilities when rotating skills.

In addition to the physical defense provided by regular gear, you also need to pay attention to the gains they bring about Evasion Rating and Energy Shield, and you should buy POE 2 Currency as much as possible to improve their specific effectiveness. When you combine these gears with Ghost Dance, it will be difficult for the enemy to cause any substantial damage to you, making you more tanky.

Skill Gems & Support Gems

In the early stages of your quest in POE 2, you’ll want to first use Explosive Spear and Expedite skill link to Detonate Storm Lance, as this skill combination gives you strong damage and clearing capabilities in the early stages of the game.

Then switch to Lightning Spear once you have it, but remember to use Cull the Weak or Parry mechanic to execute some low-health enemies to accumulate Frenzy Charges, which can be used in the next Lightning Spear or Storm Lance skill you cast, giving you a greatly improved damage capability.

In fact, the true power of this Lightning Spear Huntress build only begins to show after you gain Frenzy Charges: with the help of Electrocute, Lightning Spear can apply stackable lightning damage to enemies, and with the link of Pin and Wind Dancer, you will continue to perform Frenzy Charges, and your Lightning Spear skill will also be strengthened to make up for the shortcomings.

But it should be noted here that you should not add Sniper’s Mark to your build until you unlock the first Ascendancy point and get Critical Strike, because your Critical Strike chance is very low before that, and you cannot use this skill gem to its maximum effect.

After you meet the above conditions and activate some nodes that can provide you with critical strike buffs in your POE 2 passive skill tree, you can use Sniper’s Mark to deal super high bonus damage to higher-level bosses or enemies with higher health and have Frenzy Charges.

Although Barrage can be used to double the number of Lightning Spear throws to provide higher DPS buffs, it costs a lot of mana, so if you have gear in your build that can generate mana for you continuously, you can consider using it.

Before you are ready to enter the endgame, you will find that your dodge rate is very high, so you can use Ghost Dance to add an extra layer of defense to yourself. It will restore your energy shield according to your dodge rate when you are hit to increase your survivability in combat.

Gear

When making a Lightning Spear Huntress build during POE 2 leveling phase, it is important to find a very powerful spear for it, especially those that can increase your physical damage or lightning damage, which are worth the large amount of POE 2 Currency you spend on upgrading.

If necessary, you can also use Artificer’s Orb to add a slot to your spear and place an Iron Rune or Greater Iron Rune in it for higher damage buffs. Please note that after you make a spear with the properties you need, please recycle the items with qualities or slots in time to obtain the large amount of currency needed to upgrade the spear.

For your armor, you need to choose those that can provide you with dodge rating so that Ghost Dance can better provide you with energy shield. It is also very important to have items that can provide you with some mobility, such as boots that increase your movement speed.

In addition, you should try to keep the elemental resistance capped at 75% when possible, because this is an important factor in ensuring that you can fight against monsters or bosses that focus on elemental damage.

The above are some options and precautions for Lightning Spear Huntress build that is very popular in Dawn of the Hunt League in the current POE 2 Early Access. I hope you can use this powerful build to successfully pass the leveling stage and get more loot that can be used in the endgame stage. I wish you a happy game!

Of all the new content Path of Exile 2 Dawn of the Hunt has to offer, perhaps the most exciting for players is the addition of the new Huntress class, who brings new vitality to the game with her abilities in both melee and ranged combat.

Not only that, Amazon Ascendancy it provides has become one of the current players’ favorite Ascendancy classes. This is a hyper-offense-focused archetype and focuses on turning your character into a mobile artillery by stacking critical hit rate and elemental damage to destroy numerous enemies from a distance.

Of all the passive skill nodes that Amazon Ascendancy provides you, Elemental Infusion is the most powerful one. It gives Huntress a skill called Infuse Weapon. In this skill, your own elemental damage ability is super-highly buffed, so that you have more combat advantages when fighting against enemies or bosses that are vulnerable to elemental damage.

Although each skill gem and passive skill in POE 2 has its own description of how it works, if you learn more about the background information behind them from this guide, you can master them more skillfully and comprehensively, and can play their greatest role in actual battles and campaigns.

How To Get Infuse Weapon?

Infuse Weapon is a passive skill of Huntress provided by Elemental Infusion node on the passive skill tree of Amazon Ascendancy. To activate this node, you first need to complete Trial of Sekhemas or Trial of Chaos to unlock Amazon, and get 2 Ascendancy points from some rooms in these two trials to activate this node.

It should be noted here that although Ascendancy points can be obtained by completing the trial with the lowest difficulty, it is more challenging than in the regular campaign, so you may need to buy POE 2 Currency in advance to appropriately enhance some of the gear in your current build so that you can complete the corresponding challenge in one go.

Since Infuse Weapon is a passive skill exclusive to Huntress, you don’t need to place a skill gem for it, nor do you need to right-click or press the skill button to activate it. It always remains in the background ready to be activated, and can be activated as long as the conditions are met.

Effect Of Infuse Weapon

Before discussing the specific effect of Infuse Weapon, you need to understand the role of Elemental Infusion node that activates it in POE 2:

• When you consume Power Charge, you will get 2 Cold Infusion.
• When you consume Endurance Charge, you will get 2 Fire Infusion.
• When you consume Frenzy Charge, you will get 2 Lightning Infusion.

In short, this node allows you to provide you with some elemental damage infusion when you make some necessary charge consumption, and in the description of Infuse Weapon skill activated by it, the gains of these elemental infusions are displayed through the weapon you use.

When you use a weapon with Elemental Infusion to attack a non-melee projectile, your projectile’s damage capacity is increased accordingly, and it explodes after it ends, causing secondary explosion damage.

Note that Infuse Weapon skill itself does not consume charges, and can only be triggered and gain Elemental Infusion after you use another skill that consumes charges, and the type of element here also depends on the type of charges you consume.

In short, if you use some skills that generate charges, such as Cull the Weak, and then cast a skill that consumes such charges, such as Lightning Spear, during combat, Infuse Weapon will be triggered, and your weapon will be infused with the corresponding element.

During this process, you cast a non-melee projectile skill, such as Twister, to consume the infusion, so that the projectile you throw out has super high elemental damage and will trigger a large-scale explosion at the impact point.

Here you need to be reminded that the infusion has a 15-second cooldown before it disappears, and the number of infusions of the same type cannot exceed 6 at the same time. So you can get up to 6 Fire, 6 Cold, and 6 Lightning Infusions through Infuse Weapon skill at the same time.

At this stage, Huntress has 5 active skills that can trigger this passive skill: Lightning Spear, Explosive Spear, Storm Lance, Glacial Lance, and Whirlwind Lance.

How To Get More Charges?

As mentioned above, one of the triggering conditions for Infuse Weapon skill is to have enough Charges in your build, but the fact is that the active skills that Huntress has can’t provide you with enough Charges, so you may need to specialize in a main way to generate Charges.

In addition, Frenzy Charges are the easiest for Huntress to generate of the three consumable Charges, and the skill set that generates this Charge works perfectly with Lightning Infusion obtained by the weapon.

The most effective way to generate Frenzy Charges is to activate Combat Frenzy node, which will provide you with a certain amount of Charge every time you use Electrocute, Freeze, or Maim on the enemy.

Here, it is highly recommended to cast Electrocute directly on the enemy through Kitoko’s Current Unique Gloves, because it will increase with the increase of subsequent Lightning damage you apply to it, making it impossible for the enemy to resist.

What’s more, you can also utilize Resonance node to convert all Frenzy Charges into Power Charges, thus increasing the effectiveness of your cold infusions, which is perfect for players using a Freeze Huntress build.

The above is the specific effectiveness and combat strategy of Infuse Weapon passive skill provided by Amazon Ascendancy in the current POE 2 Early Access Dawn of the Hunt League. I hope you can learn more about the power of this passive skill from this guide and use it effectively in your regular battles. I wish you a happy game!

Dawn of the Hunt League, which launched a while ago in Path of Exile 2 Early Access, introduced a new reward mechanic called Unique Strongboxes. This mechanic was inherited from the original game, where it was originally just called Strongboxes.

So you can clearly see that the current Unique Strongboxes are special versions of Strongboxes, but they are also guarded by some larger group monsters. Although there are currently some treasure chests in POE 2 that can provide you with high-quality loot, Unique Strongboxes contain even more valuable items than some pinnacle bosses.

Given that the items awarded by Unique Strongboxes are so valuable, but the description of this mechanic in the game can be very confusing for all players, so this guide will give you an introduction to it, including the types of Unique Strongboxes and their specific potency, so that you can farm them specifically and use the rewards from them to enhance your own builds.

Types

In POE 2 Dawn of the Hunt league, you will find four Unique Strongboxes:

• Ventor’s Contraption Researcher’s Strongbox
• Ixchel’s Torment Blacksmith’s Strongbox
• Ogham’s Legacy Large Strongbox
• The Rain Festival Beetle Jeweler’s Strongbox

Each of them offers you some rewards that cover all aspects of the game, such as rare currency, buffs to the monsters you challenge, and gear. It should be noted here that some Unique Strongboxes are guarded by higher-level monsters, so you need to prepare a strong enough build in advance to fight them.

The easiest way to do this is to interact with the checkpoints along the path frequently during exploration so that you can buy POE 2 Currency to upgrade the rarity of gear that will provide you with offensive and defensive ability buffs and re-roll affixes to ensure that you always have the best current build.

Potency

Next, we should take a closer look at the specific effects of each Unique Strongbox.

Ventor’s Contraption Researcher’s Strongbox

The fact that this Unique Strongbox costs POE 2 Gold to open is a deterrent for many players, but it will cause them to miss out on a lot of valuable rewards. The first time you encounter it and open it, you need to pay 200 Gold, and your gold cost will increase with each subsequent exploration.

When you interact with the second Ventor’s Contraption Researcher’s Strongbox, you will be given a turntable with the gold increase rate, from 950% to 1050%. But you can rest assured that there are only 4 of this type of treasure chest in POE 2, so you only need to spend gold four times (up to 255,875).

After you open it, you will be surprised to find that most of the rewards are provided to you in Ventor’s Gamble, such as Scroll of Wisdom, Orb of Augmentation, Level 20 Skill Gems, Perfect Jeweler’s Orbs and even dozens of POE 2 Divine Orbs.

It should be noted here that the rewards and the amount of gold coins spent in this Strongbox are completely random, so this does not mean that the more gold coins you spend, the better your rewards will be, but it is worth affirming that it will definitely cost less than gambling.

Ixchel’s Torment Blacksmith’s Strongbox

This Strongbox is guarded by a group of monsters called aberrations of chaos. They usually appear in the form of waves, about 30-40 waves, and you can only open it if you clear them all, which is basically the same as the operation of a regular safe.

Among them, there will be a Corrupted Unique item, in which the corruption will always exist in the form of Enchantment, which means that you cannot add affixes or slots to you. It is important to note that some exclusive unique items that only drop after you defeat the boss cannot be found here.

Ogham’s Legacy Large Strongbox

This is probably one of the easiest Strongboxes to find in the game, as you can clearly see a monster’s corpse on top of the strongbox. After you open it, the monster will revive 3-6 times and drop some loot corresponding to its level and stats after you defeat it.

Note that this monster gains some additional modifiers each time it resurrects, so your combat strategy will need to change accordingly to ensure that you can complete the challenge of its last resurrection in one go and get the best rewards from it.

Additionally, all the bonus items you can get are dropped from this monster, so if you want higher value and quality loot, it is recommended that you use Waystones that increase the amount or quality of loot on the map node containing Ogham’s Legacy Large Strongbox, but this monster will also become more difficult to deal with.

Also Read: What Should You Know About Tame Beast In Path Of Exile 2?

Rain Festival Beetle Jeweler’s Strongbox

It is guarded by some Festival Beetles and the small monsters it summons, which look similar to the large beetles in Act 2 The Lost City. They will shoot red lightning in the area around them and deal high damage to players in melee range.

According to the discussion in the player community about opening this treasure chest, you may have an easier time choosing classes that support ranged combat, such as Mercenary, Witch, and the newly added Huntress.

After you kill them all and open the strongbox, you will see that there are 5-7 Jewels in it, which will increase the rarity of your gear by 50% when equipped. Also note that items such as Against the Darkness that can only be obtained from boss loot will not appear in the loot table of this strongbox.

If you want to increase their frequency of appearing on the map, you can focus on activating the nodes in the lower left corner of Atlas’ passive skill tree. In addition, if you encounter a Strongbox but are not sure what it is, you can use Scroll of Wisdom to identify it before activating it, so that you can farm the items in it more strategically.

The above are the types of Unique Strongboxes currently included in POE 2 Dawn of the Hunt league and their specific effects. I hope they can bring more surprises into your POE 2 exploration process and make it easier for you to get the rewards you want. I wish you a happy game!