News Tag: Poe 2 Smith Of Kitava Ascendancy

It has been confirmed that Path of Exile 2 Early Access will release the latest Patch 0.2.0 Dawn of the Hunt on April 4, which will bring a lot of new game content to players, and the most exciting one may be the addition of an Ascendancy class to the existing 3 classes.

It is worth introducing you to the new Warrior Ascendancy class, Smith of Kitava, which brings some truly fascinating abilities and functions to this character with super survivability and damage capabilities, such as you can create a custom powerful armor for yourself based on the position you choose this class, but the premise is that you already have a Normal body armor with a white description in your build.

This is very beneficial for players who want to use super survivability to challenge and succeed in a onetime challenge in a more difficult encounter. If you are one of these players, you will be very interested in this guide to the passive skills in Smith of Kitava Ascendancy, as this will determine what kind of play style you will explore in POE 2.

Smith Of Kitava Ascendancy Overview

Compared to Warrior’s two existing Ascendancy classes, Warbringer and Titan, Smith of Kitava is overall more powerful because of his passive skills that can provide you with additional resistances based on the resistances you stack for him in your build.

For example, Coal Stoke can modify your build’s fire resistance on the one hand, and on the other hand provide you with 50% of its value of cold or lightning resistance. With Forged in Flame activated, your maximum resistance will also have the same buff.

So without worrying about defensive capabilities, you can buy POE 2 Currency as much as you want to upgrade gear that can provide you with super high damage capabilities, so as to create a build with excellent offensive and defensive capabilities.

In addition, Smith of Kitava Ascendancy also has the ability to summon weapons, cause huge fire damage explosions, and increase the damage of minions, which can only be seen with Raging Spirits Gem in the previous Warrior build.

Passive Skills

From the current trailer of the passive skill tree of Smith of Kitava Ascendancy, its shape is unique and seems to be only biased to one side. As its name suggests, all of its passive skills can enhance weapons with its own craftsmanship and make an armor that increases all resistances, making it an excellent character for single-player exploration missions.

Currently, POE 2 has only released unlockable passive skill points on 4 branches. Here are their names and specific effects. You can activate them according to your play style. We will also continue to pay attention to any information released by the developers and update them in time.

Branch 1

• Fire Damage - Increases fire damage by 20%.
• Heat of the Forge - Grants the skill called Fire Spell on Hit.

Branch 2

• Fire Resistance - Increases fire resistance by 15%.
• Coal Stoker - A modifier to Fire Resistance also grants Cold Resistance and Lightning Resistance at 50% of its value.
• Forged in Flame - A modifier to maximum fire resistance also grants maximum cold and lightning resistance.

Branch 3

• Melee Damage - Increases melee damage by 20%.
• Against the Anvil - Grants the skill called Temper Weapon.

Branch 4

• Minion Damage - Minions deal 20% increased damage.
• Living Weapon - Grants the skill called Manifest Weapon.

Among the above passive skills, you may pay attention to the three additional skills granted by Fire Spell on Hit, Temper Weapon, and Manifest Weapon, which are also passive skills that you can activate when using Smith of Kitava.

Unfortunately, the specific effect of Fire Spell on Hit has not been announced yet. We can only know from its name that it should be a skill that can cast fire damage. As for Temper Weapon, it can make your attacks explode on impact, causing devastating AOE impact. Manifest Weapon can make an animated copy of your weapon to fight alongside you.

It is worth mentioning that after you choose this Ascendancy Class you will get a new skill for free, Smith’s Masterwork, which you can insert into your build at will. This skill will allow you to spend Ascendancy points on additional body armor passive skills, but it should be noted that you can only use Normal Body Armor when using this skill.

Below are some of the passive skill options you can equip Smith’s Masterwork with and some benefits it can provide to your armor. These skill nodes are not related to each other, so they cannot be considered a branch. You can choose the corresponding skill node based on your defense requirements.

• Flowing Metal - Body Armor increases 5% maximum fire resistance.
• Molten Symbol - Body Armor grants 25% of physical damage from attacks received as fire damage.
• Internal Layer - Body Armor grants a 50% reduced critical damage bonus to hits against you.
• Leather Bindings - Body Armor restores 5% life per second.
• Lead Lining - Body Armor increases 75% Lightning Resistance.
• Support Straps - Body Armor increases Strength by 20%.
• Kitavan Engraving - Body Armor increases maximum life by 15%.
• Tantalum Alloy - Body Armor increases 75% Fire Resistance.
• Heatproofing - Body Armor grants Immune to Ignite effect.
• Heavy Bracing - Body Armor increases stun threshold by 100%.
• Padded Plates - Body Armor increases 75% cold resistance.
• Dedication to Kitava - Body Armor grants armor that also applies to Chaos damage taken from hits.

The above is all the information we know about Smith of Kitava Ascendancy added in Patch 0.2.0 Dawn of the Hunt, which was released on April 4th. There are still many specific character skills and functions in POE 2 that have not been announced. We can look forward to what new gaming experience GGG will bring to players in this major patch!