Path Of Exile 3.26 Top 10 Endgame Builds Recommended: Which Ones Can You Choose?

The release date of Path of Exile 2 Patch 0.3.0 has been announced! The current patch was released in early April, and the next patch was released on August 29th, which is almost 5 months!

Nevertheless, it is still exciting, because each update of Path of Exile 2 always adds enough new content to the game. Although it is still far from the end of the main campaign of the game, new unique items, new POE 2 currency, and even new classes and new maps are enough to keep players playing for a while. Let’s have a look at what the developers talked about the new content of 0.3.0.

New League

The developers have confirmed that a major update will be released every 4 months, which is a new league. While bringing new items, everything will be reset. You can only use Path of Exile 2 items in the new league if you create a new character in the new league, and characters in the standard mode can no longer use items in the new league, which differs from Dawn Of The Hunt.

The developer said that the new league will have new crafting options, new combat mechanisms and new bosses, but your old characters cannot experience these contents. However, after the league ends, the new content in the league will be integrated into the standard mode, and your character in the new league will be moved to the standard mode.

Class Balance

Jonathan, the producer of Path of Exile 2, talked a lot about Patch 0.3.0 in an interview in China, including many class balance issues of player relations.

Jonathan did not reveal which skills would be weakened, but he said that most of the uncommon skills would be enhanced. They will count the skills with the lowest usage rate and strengthen or even rework them to ensure that every skill of each class can be used. I hope they can really do this, because players of Patch 0.2.1 have had enough of Lightning Spear Amazon.

In addition, Jonathan said that they are adjusting the AI of summons so that they can find paths more intelligently. The aura and damage of summons will also be adjusted, so that summons will not die so easily when encountering bosses in narrow areas.

In terms of weapon speed, the attack speed of one-handed weapons will greatly exceed that of two-handed weapons to show the difference between the two types of weapons. The attack speed of weapons is spear> sword> axe> mace, and the slower the attack speed, the higher the damage.

Passive skills will be more important, and the attribute improvements got by the character will come more from the passive skill tree, and the number of Jewel-sockets will be reduced.

Campaign

Jonathan did not reveal whether there will be a fourth act in 0.3.0, but he said that the current campaign mode of the game will be removed soon, which is normal + cruel. This way of letting players pass the first three acts twice is really very consuming of players’ patience.

After removing this mode, players can reach the endgame faster and then farm. And the player’s upgrade speed will become faster, and players can reach the maximum level more easily.

Trading System

Jonathan also mentioned that a large part of the players of Path of Exile 2 care about something very much, the economic system. The economic system of Path of Exile series may not be the best, but it is definitely the most complex and has the greatest impact on the game.

In order to avoid inflation in the game, gold will also be involved in currency transactions, and gold will be bound to the player. This does not mean that you can directly buy POE 2 currency with gold. On the contrary, because gold is bound to the player, you can basically only get gold through farming.

He mentioned that he is making a new, simpler and more convenient trading system, but we don’t know how this system will work yet. Players very want an auction house actually because it can simplify many trading-related operations.

Endgame

The current endgame map set lacks variety and is a bit boring to play. In 0.3.0, players will encounter more encounters on the map and get more rewards.

The game will continue to add pinnacle bosses to provide players with real challenges and powerful rewards. Jonathan said they are considering re-adjusting the operation of the endgame maps, and 0.3.0 will not change much.

UI And Quality Of Life

The first is the improvement of the pause. In the next patch, you can hover the mouse over the monster after pausing to view the exact DPS when you pause the game, so that you can accurately adjust your arrangement.

The developer also said that the special effects will be optimized so that players can see their skills clearly in multiplayer games, and avoid the special effects of their skills covering the enemy’s attack range, causing themselves to fail to dodge the attack.

Jonathan also talked about many exciting topics in the interview, such as the new POE 2 currency, new production methods, etc., but he did not reveal that players can play Druids in 0.3.0. But Patch 0.2.0 brought a new class, and Patch 0.3.0 must at least have a substantial update. If it is not a Druid, then perhaps Act 4.

Path of Exile always follows a very strict equipment drop mechanism. The equipment dropped by monsters is usually not satisfactory, so players need to collect various currencies to modify equipment and make it useful. However, since the effect of currency is full of randomness, an excellent base will become worthless under the change of random effects.

Players can also directly use currency to trade their crafted items with other players, but this means that players must pay more currency. In any case, currency is very important. POE 3.26 brings a new unique item to the game, so is there a way to farm POE Divine and other currencies in 3.26?

1. Atlas Tree: Destructive Play

The first farming method requires you to add Destructive Play keystone in Atlas Tree. Its function is to make 1 to 3 additional random bosses appear on the map. The fewer monsters in the map, the more bosses will appear.

This strategy does not require you to use scarabs, but your build needs to do high single-target damage and high movement speed. These will allow you to deal with the bosses that appear on the map faster and move to the next map.

Note that some maps have negative buffs that may slow down your speed of defeating monsters. It is very important to choose the right map.

2. Legion Dunes

Dune in Legion is a very rich map. Its map is open and monsters can spawn everywhere. It is the fastest map for players to farm. You can choose Atlas nodes such as Logistical Support or Constant Battle to further increase your income in this map. In addition, you can also run Delirium Mirror activities on this map, which are all excellent choices.

Incubators and Scarabs can increase your income. This map drops more currency and unique items.

Recommended Incubators:

• Cartographer’s Incubator
• Diviner’s Incubator (Priority)
• Foreboding Incubator
• Geomancer’s Incubator
• Infused Incubator
• Kalguuran Incubator
• Ornate Incubator (Priority)
• Skittering Incubator

Recommended Scarabs:

• Legion Scarab
• Legion Scarab of Command
• Legion Scarab of The Sekhema
• Legion Scarab of Eternal Conflict

Scarabs can increase your income on the map and can be said to be a must for farming the map. Before you start farming, you can trade some scarabs with POE Divine Orbs or Chaos Orbs.

3. Low Tier Masters

This is a relatively simple gameplay but requires you to use your brain. You first need to make the following three masters appear more frequently on the map in Atlas Tree node, and then complete the tasks they give you.

• Alva, Master Explorer
• Jun, Veiled Master
• Einhar, Beastmaster

You need to prepare Bestiary Scarab of the Herd and Betrayal Scarab in advance, both of which are scarabs with low value.

4. Kingsmarch

Kingsmarch has been greatly changed in 3.26, and it has become a reliable source of currency farming. You just need to farm on different maps and then transport the resources you find back to the town to participate in trade.

Every time a merchant ship successfully arrives at the port, you can get various rewards such as currency, unique items, etc. To maximize the resources you get, you need to use the following scarabs:

• Kalguuran Scarab of Refinement
• Kalguuran Scarab
• Sulphite Scarab
• Harvest Scarab of Doubling/Torment Scarab of Possession

5. Harbinger

Harbinger has always been one of the effective ways to farm currency because Harbinger will drop a variety of currency fragments. And every time Harbinger appears, there will be many rare monsters appearing together. Choose the following scarabs to maximize your farming benefits:

• Harbinger Scarab
• Harbinger Scarab of Regency
• Harbinger Scarab of Obelisks
• Harbinger Scarab of Warhoard

Choosing this farming strategy requires your build to create excellent AOE damage and be able to recover quickly when it falls into an abnormal state.

6. Normal T16 Maps

Path of Exile maps are divided into four qualities: normal, magic, rare, and unique. They are also divided into three difficulty levels, and T16 maps are top-level maps. Although the T 16.5 reward group is the most generous, Normal T16 Maps are easier to get and more convenient to farm.

Your farming targets in this section are Essence, Betrayal, and Heist. You don’t need to invest too many items, but you can get a lot of rewards quickly.

Scarabs you need:

• Betrayal Scarab of Reinforcements
• Essence Scarab
• Essence Scarab of Stability
• Essence Scarab of Ascent

7. Kirac Missions

You need to get red level missions, or unique missions, in Kirac. You can get great rewards from these missions, such as Harvest Beasts, Essences and even Untainted Paradise unique map.

You can get 5 Kirac missions by using Primal Cystcaller Recipe (red beast variant) and kill Primal Cystcaller.

Kirac’s unique missions are as follows:

• Einhar’s Memory of the Sacred Grove
• Einhar’s Memory of Crystal Prisons
• Einhar’s Memory of Harvest Beasts
• Niko’s Memory of Chasms
• Niko’s Memory of Grasping Hands
• Niko’s Memory of Tormented Souls
• Alva’s Memory of Reverse Incursion
• Kirac’s Memory of Survivor’s Guilt
• Kirac’s Memory of Phaaryl
• Kirac’s Memory of the Pantheon

The above are some strategies for farming currency in 3.26. Each strategy has different efficiency, but each is suitable for different players. Choose the strategy that suits you best and you will soon be able to reap the rewards.

One of the biggest features of PoE 3.26 is the mercenary system, which players can hire by challenging and defeating mercenaries. Each mercenary has his own class, skills and equipment, and they will undoubtedly become your important helpers.

Although each mercenary has his own equipment, their gears are not very powerful, but fortunately players can manually change their gears, so what POE items are more suitable for these mercenaries?

Main Weapon

In the choice of main weapon, you can choose weapons for mercenaries that can either provide auxiliary aura effects or control monsters, slowing them down or weakening their elemental resistance.

Some unique items that have negative effects themselves but can protect allies are also great choices, such as Sign of the Sin Eater. Before, perhaps no one was willing to exchange for this unique item with his POE Divine Orb, but now it is one of the most suitable equipment for mercenaries.

Sign Of The Sin Eater

Effect: When in range, elemental ailments will target mercenaries instead of you.

Suitable classes:

• Shock Ambusher
• Frost Ambusher
• Stormhand
• Frosthand
• Flamehand
• Reanimator
• Warpriest
• Fallen Reverend
• Flaming Charlatan

Kingmaker

Effect: Grants aura-like effects such as IIR, culling strikes, critical hit multipliers, and enhancements.

Suitable classes:

• Earthshaker
• Eruptor
• Swiftblade

Singularity

Effect: Can Hinder enemies nearby.

• Suitable classes:
• Shock Ambusher
• Frost Ambusher
• Stormhand
• Frosthand
• Flamehand
• Reanimator
• Warpriest
• Fallen Reverend
• Flaming Charlatan

Dying Breath

Effect: Grants aura-like effects, increasing the damage and curse effects of nearby enemies. Improves the aura effect of mercenaries.

Suitable classes:

• Withertouch
• Cruel Mistress
• Winter Deacon
• Storming Zealot

Eclipse Solaris

Effect: Blinds nearby enemies.

• Suitable classes:
• Shock Ambusher
• Frost Ambusher
• Bladecaster
• Stormhand
• Frosthand
• Flamehand
• Reanimator
• Kineticist

Al Dhih

Effect: Enemies taunted by the mercenary’s war cry explode on death.

Suitable classes:

• Bladebitter

Bino’s Kitchen Knife

Effect: As the Mercenary kills an enemy, you gain poison spread and health regeneration.

Suitable classes:

• Shock Ambusher
• Frost Ambusher
• Bladecaster
• Bladebitter

Rebuke Of The Vaal

Effect: Works well with Rallying Cry

Suitable classes:

• Shattersword

Swiftblade (Class)

Suitable weapons:

• Echoforge
• Starforge
• Rakiata’s Dance
• Oro’s Sacrifice
• Replica Oro’s Sacrifice
• Uul-Netol’s Kiss
• Debeon’s Dirge

Off-Hand Weapons

Off-hand weapons are various unique shields that can also enhance the mercenary’s auras and put enemies into various abnormal states.

• Matua Tupuna: Increases the effect of the mercenary’s auras. Slows when blocking.
• Victario’s Charity: Increases the AOE range of the mercenary’s aura. Allows nearby allies to gain Frenzy Charge when attacking. Grants nearby allies Power Charge on kill.
• Replica Victario’s Charity: Increases the AOE range of the mercenary’s aura, granting nearby allies Endurance Charge on attack. Grants nearby allies Frenzy Charge on kill.
• Sentari’s Answer: Curses nearby enemies or reduces their elemental resistance.
• Broken Faith: Increases critical strike chance against affected enemies by 100% and increases curse effectiveness by 10%.
• Brinerot Flag: Grants Arcane Surge when the mercenary uses a Warcry, increasing mana regeneration.
• Dawnbreaker: Powerful defensive shield, and grants enemies a Burning effect on Block.
• The Anticipation: Allows your mercenary to always be Intimidated by enemies.

Helmet

Helmets are also unique items, but it does not mean that you have to prepare all the perfect equipment for your mercenaries. Your POE currency is mainly used to improve yourself. If you get the following unique items during farming, don’t rush to turn them into Divine Orbs. You can check whether they are suitable for your mercenaries first.

• Crown of the Tyrant: Deals fixed damage to the enemy. Also reduces all resistances of nearby enemies by 10%.
• Ylfeban’s Trickery: Applies a random curse to the enemy when hit.
• Leer Cast: Releases an aura that increases damage.
• Blood Price: Applies Temporal Chains, Elemental Weakness or Punishment curses to the enemy.
• Galesight: The mercenary’s cold damage can cause it to fall into Brittle.
• Eye of Malice: Increases the fire/cold resistance of nearby enemies, making negative resistances worse.
• Mask of the Spirit Drinker/Mask of the Stitched Demon: Improves the life regeneration ability of the mercenary according to the energy shield.

The remaining equipment has similar effects. They can increase the mercenary’s resistance while providing you with benefits and trapping the enemy in various debuffs.

Body Armor

• Doryani’s Prototype
• Garb of the Ephemeral
• Cloak of Tawm’r Isley
• Blunderbore
• Fenumus’ Shroud- For Bladecasters.
• Sporeguard
• Expedition’s End
• Doppelgänger Guise
• Gruthkul’s Pelt

Gloves

• Ceaseless Feast
• Asenath’s Gentle Touch
• Breathstealer
• Gravebind
• The Hand of Phrecia
• Hand of Heresy
• Abhorrent Interrogation
• Algor Mortis
• Soul Ascension

Boots

• Windscream
• Legacy of Fury
• The Tempest Rising
• Fenumus’ Spinnerets
• Inextricable Fate

Belt

• Kaom’s Binding
• Pyroshock Clasp
• Belt of the Deceiver
• The Arkhon’s Tools

Ring

• Fated End
• Doedre’s Damning
• Anathema
• Call of the Void
• Squirming Terror
• The Highwayman
• Blackflame
• Polaric Devastation
• Icefang Orbit
• Venopuncture
• Winterweave

Amulet

• Shaper’s Seed
• Perquil’s Toe
• The Eternal Struggle
• The Untouched Soul
• Xoph’s Heart

The above are the most suitable equipment for mercenaries. They can form a wonderful combination with you, but you have to allocate equipment according to the attributes of the mercenaries. In addition, you must remember to take off their equipment when you dismiss them, otherwise they will take away your equipment worth hundreds of Divine orbs, and disappear forever.

Path of Exile 2 0.2.1 has been officially released. Besides the new currency and runes, the most noteworthy are the 9 new unique items. So what do these new unique items do? Can they appear in the player’s endgame builds?

1. Constricting Command Viper Cap

• Increases (80–120) to maximum Life
• Increases (10–15) to all Attributes
• Increases (8–12) Life per second
• Pin Enemies (when the target is Primed for Pin)

This item is obviously not very valuable, because it is not too difficult to Pin enemies in the game, and its unique effect is not very meaningful. But it can provide the character with maximum health and all attributes, and you can use it as your transition equipment.

2. Mind Of The Council Death Mask

• Increased 60–90% Evasion and Energy Shield
• Increased 60–90 to maximum Mana
• Increased 20–30% to Lightning Resistance
• Each attack costs an additional 6% of your maximum mana
• Each attack adds Lightning damage equal to 6–9% of your maximum mana

This unique item has great potential. If you are a Monk or Huntress, this unique mask can significantly increase your damage, and all you need is to stack maximum mana.

If you don’t need this unique item, I believe there will be other players willing to trade it for POE 2 Divine Orb.

3. Lioneye’s Glare Heavy Bow

• Increased 150–240% Physical Damage
• Increased 300–500 to Accuracy Rating
• Increased 10% Attack Speed
• Increased 20–30 to Dexterity
• If you haven’t Dodge Rolled recently, the next distance is increased by 2 meters
• If you have Dodge Rolled recently, the next distance is reduced by 1 meter
• Attack with this bow, and it repeats +1 times if there are no enemies around (default radius of 4 meters)

This unique item obviously increases your base damage and allows you to continue attacking as long as the enemy is standing 4 meters away from you. This is a powerful unique item, but it is not without alternatives. It is currently rarely used in top builds, and its potential is still untapped.

4. Murkshaft Toxic Quiver

• Gives Skill: Level 16 Bursting Fen Toad
• 10–15% chance to Poison Targets on Hit with Attacks
• Adds 6 to 17 Physical Damage per attack
• get 10–15 Mana per Enemy Killed
• Increases Poison Duration by 10–20%
• Increases chance to Poison on Hit with Attacks by 20–30%
• Blind enemies when you Poison them

This is a cool unique item that summons a poison frog that jumps into a monster pile and explodes when you make a kill. It doesn’t work when you’re dealing with bosses, but it’s really useful when you’re in a dungeon or tower.

5. The Last Lament Desolate Crossbow

• Grants Skill: Level 13 Requiem
• Increased 250–300% Physical Damage
• Increased 10–20% Attack Speed
• Leech 5–10% of Physical Damage converted to health
• 10–20% chance to add an arrow to your crossbow skill on killing
• When you have no arrows, consume 300 health to add an arrow
• Reduced 40–60% Reload Speed

This is an absolutely insane unique item that provides high base damage and gives you nearly unlimited arrows. The most extreme is the Level 13 Requiem, which provides 400% attack speed and up to 900% base attack boost.

If you use Lich, this can be used as a weapon for your endgame build. It is hard to drop, and you can buy POE 2 Divine Orb and trade it with other players.

6. The Whispering Ice Permafrost Staff

• Grants Skill: Level 17 Heart of Ice
• Grants Skill: Level 17 Icestorm
• Increases 2–4 to Level of all Cold Spell Skills
• Reduces Cast Speed by 10–20%
• Increases Intelligence by 5–15%
• Spell damage increased by 10 points of Intelligence
• Attacks cause Cold Exposure on hit, reducing the target’s total cold resistance by 20–30%

This is also a very interesting unique item, and you can use it to create a very interesting build. Its two skills slow nearby enemies by 60%, and you can farm in a very safe position.

7. Cadiro’s Gambit Primed Quiver

• Increases Attack Speed by 7–10%
• Each Arrow fired could be a Crescendo, Diamond, Splinter, Covetous, Reversing, or Blunt Arro

This is a very useful unique item for every player who uses bow, and all the arrows you shoot have a special effect. No matter what stage you get it, it can be used for something.

8. Adonia’s Ego Siphoning Wand

• Grants Skill: Level 4 Power Siphon
• Grants Skill: Level 15 Pinnacle of Power
• Increases Maximum Mana by 100–150
• Increases the level of all Spell Skills by 3
• Increased Cast Speed by 15–30%
• Reduced 10% to all Elemental Resistances every Power Charge
• (-1–1) to Maximum Power Charges

This is a very versatile Wand that consumes Power Charges to increase your elemental damage and reduce the elemental resistance of your enemies. As long as you stack Power Charges, you can get a pretty scary damage increase.

9. Palm Of The Dreamer Shrine Sceptre

• Grants Skill: Level 8 Impurity
• Adds extra Chaos Damage to allies you are with
• Increases all your attributes by 7–13
• Light Radius reduced by 23%
• Skill duration reduced
• Gain 27% of damage as extra Chaos Damage
• Gain Dreaming Gloom Shrine effect (killed enemies explode, dealing 25% of their maximum health to nearby enemies)

This unique item is really crazy because of Dreaming Gloom Shrine effect. With this effect, you can almost instantly clear half the screen of monsters, and it’s worth a lot of Divine Orbs on the market.

Most of the 9 new items are very powerful, and some can even greatly improve your endgame experience. But given the low item drops in POE 2, you may have to farm for a long time in the endgame map to get these new unique items.

After a long wait, we finally say goodbye to 3.25 and welcome 3.26. The developers also proved in the preview live broadcast that they are not lazy, and there will be enough content added to the game, almost equivalent to a Diablo 4 DLC!

To summarize briefly, the content of Path Of Exile 3.26 covers new endgame content, including new plots and three new Pinnacle Bosses, which can be defeated to get new unique items. In addition, new mechanism mercenaries have been added, and you can choose to recruit them or rob their items.

In addition to the above two important changes, there are many more added content, and let’s inspect.

Endgame

When the player reaches certain progress in the endgame, you will encounter a mysterious NPC, Eagon, in a Memory Tear. After interacting with Memory Tear, you can start a new Endgame mainline, and Eagon will also move to your hideout.

Memory Petals

After opening a new main quest, there will be some maps affected by Memory, where the monsters will carry Memory Petals. You can increase the counter to special memory abilities by killing these monsters, and you can activate special abilities after the counter reaches a certain level. The petals required for each ability are different. For example, Memory of Disbelief requires 30 petals, while Memory of Panic requires 50 petals.

Each map can only unlock one ability, but you can freely combine these abilities to make the monsters drop the loot you want.

• Memory of Disbelief: After activating the ability, the monsters affected by this effect will only drop items such as POE currency and maps, and no longer drop equipment
• Memory of Panic: After activating the ability, the monsters affected by this ability can be resurrected once after being killed, and you can get double experience points and loot.
• Memory of Impatience: After activating the ability, you can continue to absorb the souls of affected enemies to gain temporary enhancements.

New Pinnacle Bosses

As you explore the main quest, you will eventually encounter three Pinnacle Bosses, Incarnation of Dread, Incarnation of Neglect, and Incarnation of Fear. Each boss will drop a new unique item:

Starcaller (Incarnation Of Fear)

• Unique Abyssal Axe
• Trigger level 20 Starfall on melee critical hits
• All Attributes + 16-17
• Increases physical damage by 123-168%
• Increases critical chance by 22-30%
• Increases area of ​​effect by 12-20%
• 46-56% weapon physical damage converted to random elemental bonus damage

Wine Of The Prophet (Incarnation Of Neglect)

• Unique Gold Flask
• Increases maximum charge by 60
• Increases charge by 48% peruse
• Grants a random divination buff for 20 seconds when used

Enmity’s Embrace (Possibly From Incarnation Of Dread)

• Unique Vermillion Ring
• Increases strength by 49
• Increases fire damage by 14%
• Reduces fire resistance by 55%
• Affected by 449 when using a skill Fire Damage
• Damage Penetrates Fire Resistance equal to your Overcapped Fire Resistance

Prospero’s Protection (Possibly From Incarnation Of Dread)

• Unique Iron Ring
• 5% chance to block attack damage
• Increases Strength by 18
• Increases maximum health
• Double armor provided by equipped shield
• Cannot gain armor when equipped with body armor

The above are some of the new unique items in Path Of Exile 3.26, which can completely change the gameplay of some builds. However, they require you to defeat Pinnacle Bosses so you can get them, and if you want to get them and complete your build as soon as possible, you can trade with other players as long as you have enough POE Divine Orbs.

Memory Strand

In the affected maps, items dropped by monsters will also contain new modifiers related to Memory Strand. You can use the following three new currencies to influence Memory Strand:

• Orb of Remembrance
• Orb of Unravelling
• Orb of Intention

Mercenaries Of Trathus Challenge League

Mercenaries are a new mechanic introduced in Path Of Exile 3.26. These mercenaries appear in every city. They have unique skills and equipment, and they are also divided into strong and weak. Some mercenaries will have the affix “Infamous”, which means they have better equipment and are stronger than other mercenaries.

These mercenaries follow the following mechanics:

• You need to defeat them before you can unlock them for hire.
• You can recruit up to three mercenaries, but only one will fight with you, and the other two will stay in the town.
• You can change the equipment of mercenaries.
• You need to upgrade mercenaries manually.
• Mercenaries can be resurrected in the town with gold after death.
• Mercenaries will not drop items when they die.
• You can exile mercenaries, and such mercenaries will not appear in the next ten encounters.
• You can loot mercenaries.

There are also Mercenaries challenges, which reward you with unique items after completing a certain number of challenges.

Kingsmarch

With Settlers of Kalguur league settling in Kingsmarch, the quality of life of players will also change:

• Players will no longer need to build a town from scratch every time.
• Passive skill tree points unlocked in Act 1 are reset.
• Act 2 unlocks gold trading.
• Act 6 unlocks currency exchange.
• Players can now pause almost any time (some Pinnacle Bosses cannot).
• Players can hire workers to transport ore from various places back to the port, and complete the transportation to get Runegrafts as rewards.

These are still not all the changes brought by Path Of Exile 3.26. This is undoubtedly the best update so far, and whether you are a returning player or a new player, you can experience it for yourself after the update on Friday, June 13.

Path of Exile 2 Dawn of the Hunt has a lot of new content that players can play for a while. The emergence of the new class and Ascendancy class has disrupted the previous builds rankings, and the new class Huntress quickly replaced Monk.

Classes Evaluation

Before you choose a build, you must first determine the class. At Dawn of the Hunt, I recommend you to play Huntress and Ranger. Currently, both of them are the builds that can cause the most damage. Next are Witch and Sorceress. They can bring a pleasant experience in the early stage of the game, and the damage is also very high in the endgame.

The damage of Monk and Mercenary is not worse than any of the above classes, but their mechanisms are a bit complicated and players need to adapt for a while.

Warrior has excellent survivability, but is not good at causing damage. Therefore, in the endgame, whether it is farming maps or bosses, his efficiency is a bit low, and he also needs to use currency to roll out good modifiers for equipment.

Build Rank Criteria

Because of the freedom of building in POE 2, a criterion is needed to rank builds:

• Damage: Determines the overall damage of builds in high-level maps, making it not only efficient in clearing ordinary monsters, but also capable of dealing with bosses
• Survivability: Since there is a death penalty in the game, the build needs to avoid death and map failure as much as possible.
• Investment: Some builds require specific modifiers or unique items to operate smoothly, which requires players to buy POE 2 currency. Builds that do not require special modifiers and unique items are more popular.

S Tier

• Lightning Spear Amazon Build
• Glacial Lance Deadeye Build
• Spark Blood Mage Build
• Bleed Blood Mage Build
• Cast on Ignite Comet Infernalist Build

Lightning Spear Amazon is one of the most powerful builds currently. With Frenzy Charges, Lightning Spear Amazon can easily cause tens of millions of damage. Lightning Spear Amazon’s skill set is already quite good, so you don’t need to prepare any POE 2 items specifically. If you have a lot of Divine Orbs, you can trade her spear for a Soul Core of Quipolatl.

Glacial Lance Deadeye Build also benefits from Frenzy Charges. Glacial Lance, Combat Frenzy, and Disengage are all related to Frenzy Charge, which makes Deadeye’s DPS very high, but this build requires Thrillsteel Spired Greathelm and Nightscale Pauascale Gloves to increase skill speed and critical strike rate.

Bleed Blood Mage Build has super single-target damage. She can easily kill the boss of a 4-man team on the highest difficulty. In most of time, you can hardly see the boss’s next phase. If you like the one-hit-kill style of play, then you should try Bleed Blood Mage.

A Tier

• Dark Effigy Lich Build
• Slam Bleed Titan Build
• Bleed Bow Deadeye Build
• Ballista Tactician Build
• Storm Wave Invoker Build
• Poison Bleed Rapid Assault Ritualist Build
• Poison Pathfinder Build

S Tier builds can easily pick lv15 maps, while A Tier builds are slightly inferior in output limit, but can also pass normal areas without pressure in the endgame.

Dark Effigy Lich Build does not rely on summons. You can think of it as a caster that mainly deals chaos damage. It can cause large-scale AOE damage and can avoid damage from melee enemies. It can be said to be an attack and defense in one. The disadvantage of this build is that it consumes a lot of mana.

B Tier

• Flaming Smith of Kitava Build
• Lich Necromancer Build
• Bleed Twister Amazon Build
• Thorns Smith of Kitava Build
• Grenadier Gemling Legionnaire Build
• Fire Grenade Witchhunter Build
• Lightning Arrow Deadeye Build

B Tier builds either have low damage caps or very strict gear requirements. If you can’t meet the corresponding requirements, the damage of B Tier builds will be greatly reduced.

Flaming Smith of Kitava Build can deal large-scale damage and has high elemental resistance. However, its disadvantage is that its ability to resist physical damage is relatively weak, and it relies on stuns and stun accumulation.

C Tier

• Warcry Warbringer Build
• Ice Lightning Invoker Build
• Spark Stormweaver Build

C Tier and below builds are in a hard situation in the endgame. They have various problems, such as insufficient survivability, reliance on mana management, and low movement speed. This makes them very easy to die when facing powerful bosses. If you don’t particularly like this build, then it is not recommended to try it.

Leveling Builds

Leveling builds are only needed as a transition in the early campaign. Their own strength is not enough to deal with the content of the endgame, but good leveling builds can make your upgrade faster. The following are recommended leveling builds for each class.

• Strike Warrior Build
• Lightning Ranger Build
• Spark Sorceress Build
• Arsonist Minion Witch Build
• Lightning Mercenary Build
• Lightning Monk Build
• Bleed Huntress Build

The above are the builds worth using in Dawn of the Hunt. They can rely on their powerful damage-making capabilities to allow you to push every map in the endgame.