What Do The Top 10 Tier 2 Support Gems In Path Of Exile 2 Do?

Even the most experienced gamer or critic will not easily claim that he has figured out how to play POE series of games. Whether it is the first or the second part, POE series of games has always been known for its high difficulty and high complexity. To understand each mechanism, you need to invest a lot of time and effort.

Not long ago, Path of Exile 2 early access brought the game’s first league Dawn of the Hunt through the release of patch 0.2.0. This league brought a series of new content, making the already complex game even more difficult to master. But don’t worry, just follow your game rhythm to understand every content you encounter, and you will do your POE 2 work well.

For example, in POE 2, you will gradually encounter and unlock some special buffs, which can provide you with exclusive benefits and help you win battles more smoothly to earn POE 2 Currency, but you may not know how to unlock and use them at the beginning. Based on this, this time we will introduce you to the relevant information of the two buffs, Tailwind and Unholy Might.

Tailwind

Tailwind is a stackable buff that increases your character’s dodge rating, movement speed, and skill speed. Each stack increases movement speed by 1%, skill speed by 3%, and dodge rating by 15%, all of which last for 10 seconds, up to a maximum of 10 stacks.

How Does Tailwind Work?

If your character is a Ranger and Ascendancy class is Deadeye, Tailwind can be triggered by any skill you use, and you can activate Tailwind by using the skill without having to hit the enemy. When activated, Tailwind will visually appear as a strong wind around you.

Before combat begins, you can stack all 10 Tailwind buffs by using skills in succession, provided that you have used them no more than 10 seconds apart. It is worth noting that even weapon attacks that do not consume mana are considered skills in this context, and using them will also activate Tailwind.

In general, skills with low mana consumption and no cooldowns are the best choices for activating Tailwind, as they can be used in succession, such as Lightning Arrow. This type of skill not only outputs high damage, but can also be used infinitely with good mana regeneration and sufficient mana.

How To Get Tailwind?

In Path of Exile 2, in addition to playing as Deadeye as mentioned above, Tailwind can also be obtained through Black Insignia Corsair Helmet. As long as you are a Ranger and successfully pass the first Trial of the Sekhemas or Trial of chaos, you have a chance to be a Deadeye to unlock Tailwind.

As for Black Insignia, as long as you kill monsters of level 46 and above in the game, you have a chance to get the item drop. However, Tailwind obtained in this way will not be triggered when using skills, but only when you successfully cause a critical hit.

Unholy Might

Unholy Might, which is also a buff effect, converts 30% of all damage into additional chaos damage. While this number may seem high, it actually works differently than you think. For example, if you deal 100 lightning damage, 30% of that will be converted to chaos damage, which means you will deal 100 lightning damage and 30 chaos damage - the base damage value will not be converted directly to chaos damage.

This means that if you have an item that increases Lightning Damage by 50% and Unholy Might at the same time, the former will not increase the additional chaos damage from Unholy Might - you will still only deal 150 lightning damage and 30 chaos damage, because even though the lightning damage output is 150, the chaos damage is still calculated based on the base value of 100.

Of course, if you buy POE 2 Currency to add affixes that can increase chaos damage to your weapons or other item, the additional chaos damage will also be increased. So if your chaos damage is increased by 50% through affixes, then your final damage output will be 100 lightning damage + 30 chaos damage + 15 chaos damage.

However, if your base damage type is chaos damage, the scaling value will apply to both the base value and the additional chaos damage from Unholy Might. Given that the base damage type and the additional damage type scale differently, Unholy Might only really work when dealing with a single chaos damage.

What Is Presence?

Presence in POE 2 refers to the range of effect that Unholy Might takes effect in. Normally this range is 4 meters, but can be increased using range modifiers. These modifiers can be unlocked through Sceptres, Time-Lost Jewels, and certain skills in the passive skill tree, such as Enveloping Essence, Long Distance Relationship, and Profane Commander.

How To Get Unholy Might?

There are two ways to get Unholy Might. The first is to choose Lich as your Ascendancy class while playing as a Witch class. After that, Necromantic Conduit will allow you to gain Unholy Might for you and your teammates within Presence range by losing 5% of your maximum mana per second when you have enough mana.

The second way is to obtain Vis Mortis Plated Raiment Unique Body Armor dropped in battle. This armor will increase your energy shield and maximum mana by 70-100%, and allow your minions to gain Unholy Might - note, it is the minions, you cannot directly gain Unholy Might through this method.

I believe that through the introduction of these two buffs, you should be able to deduce how to obtain and use most other similar buffs, to use them to better complete your Path of Exile 2 missions and campaigns. Have fun!

In Path of Exile 2 Early Access, there are a lot of skill options, and you can use them to build a nearly perfect character for easier exploration. In the major update released by POE 2 some time ago and the latest Dawn of the Hunt League, you can also use different ways to build different characters around the same skill.

For example, you can put Boneshatter skill gem in Titan or Warbringer builds with two different play styles, and you will get different game experiences: one will give you strong survivability and strong damage ability, while the other will always have super strong clearing ability to quickly complete all challenges in the leveling stage.

If you are an Exile who prefers to quickly clear a large number of enemies and enjoy the pleasure of fast leveling, then this guide on using Boneshatter Warbringer build to perform this series of operations is not to be missed. Here you will learn some of the build options and precautions you need to choose for each act in POE 2.

Act 1

In Act 1, which is just beginning to explore the game, the most important thing you should do is to build around the core Boneshatter skill of the build and use it proficiently so that you can build muscle memory when casting skills as early as possible, so as to maximize the effectiveness of the skill.

In terms of initial skill selection, you can use Earthquake and Shockwave Totem to form the best skill combination with Boneshatter, which will accumulate your stun effect on the enemy as soon as possible, thereby increasing the other damage you can inflict on it later.

If you are caught in a battle against a large number of group enemies, Infernal Cry will provide you with some strong clearing ability and additional damage, but it needs to be used before Boneshatter. Perfect Strike is usually used when fighting against the final boss.

Since you will enter and complete Trial of Sekhemas early in Act 2 to obtain Ascendancy class Warbringer and the skills it provides you, it is best to bring a shield when fighting in this scene so that you can adapt to the combat state of using a one-handed hammer and shield.

You also need to stack as much armor and health regeneration as possible in your Boneshatter Warbringer build. The best way to do this is to buy POE 2 Currency to upgrade some of the defensive gear you get early, such as armor and helmets, as much as possible to enhance the buffs and affixes it brings to your defensive capabilities.

Act 2

Compared to Act 1, the challenge you face here will be slightly more difficult, so you may want to add Leap Slam to your skill rotation, which will catapult you into the center of the group of enemies and cause damage and stun nearby enemies where you land.

Leap Slam can fully prepare you for the subsequent Boneshatter, especially if you upgrade it appropriately and choose support gems that provide it with super high buffs, which will allow Boneshatter Warbringer build to cause very high stun effects and physical damage to enemies.

However, it should be noted that you should not upgrade the level of Leap Slam to a level higher than the level that unlocks it, because too high a level will make it possible for Boneshatter’s subsequent damage ability to be out of sync, which will actually become a hindrance.

In addition, in Act 2, in addition to completing the most important Trial of Sekhemas to obtain Warbringer Ascendancy, you also need to upgrade some of your existing skills and gear as much as possible, and be familiar with the rotation and timing of each skill.

In fact, there is no specific recommendation for the support gem options in the first two acts of the game content, because the support gem levels you can obtain in the current process are all low, so you can try them at will.

But if you want to improve the fight against Bosses or increase single-target damage, choosing some support gems that add range effects to skills will be very suitable for this Boneshatter Warbringer build.

Act 3 Until Endgame

In the last part of the regular difficulty POE 2 game content, the active skills in Boneshatter Warbringer build will not change very much, just adding Hammer of the Gods and Seismic Cry, but the support gems behind them need to be adjusted on a large scale.

For example, you need to put Brink in Leap Slam, which will ensure that your active skill will not stun the enemy too much, making it easier to prepare for the core skill Boneshatter and smoothly enter the skill rotation.

You also need to put Heavy Swing in Hammer of the Gods. Although it will reduce the attack speed of this skill by 10%, the damage capacity is increased by 30%, making it more threatening to enemies or bosses without physical resistance.

For the melee-focused Mace Strike skill, you can also replace one of the two support gems that can cause stun to the enemy with Lacerate, which will help you deal continuous damage and increase your single-target damage.

After this series of changes, all the skills you put in Boneshatter Warbringer build will be well integrated, which can help you smoothly pass the three acts of the game content in Act 3 and Cruel difficulty.

It is also necessary to remind you that although the game content in Cruel difficulty is the same as the regular difficulty, because of the unique map refresh mechanism in POE 2, some dungeons or places with better farming benefits may not be fixed, and you need to search around the entire map. But you can interact with nearby checkpoints from time to time so that you can respawn at the nearest checkpoint after dying in battle.

The above are some of the build options and considerations for fast leveling using Boneshatter Warbringer build in the current POE 2 Early Access Dawn of the Hunt League. Hopefully, this guide can help you get through the leveling phase faster and into the more interesting endgame phase in challenging game content. Have fun playing!

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!