Builds & Skills

Skill gems, support gems, and build guides.

Count Geonor

Count Geonor is a unique monster located in Ogham Manor. He is the final boss of Act 1. Defeating him is necessary to complete The Mad Wolf of Ogham.

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Charge

Charges are counters that are represented as glowing orbs around an entity. They are not buffs.

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Mawdun Mine

Mawdun Mine is an area in Act 2. This area has a waypoint and is connected to Mawdun Quarry.

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Passive Skill Tree

The Passive Skill Tree is a vast, interconnected web of passive skill in Path of Exile 2 that allows players to customize their character's attributes and pow

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Atziri's Splendour

Atziri's Splendour is a unique Sacrificial RegaliaSacrificial RegaliaArmour: 273Evasion: 248Energy Shield: 76Movement Speed: -3.0%Requires Level 65, 72 Str, 7

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Ailment

Ailments are a type of debuff associated with specific damage types. Damaging ailments damage over time.

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Deadeye Passive Skills Reference

Deadeye is an Ascendancy class for the Ranger.

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Buff

A buff is a status effect that applies a beneficial bonus on the entity. This could be produced by a skill or by interacting with certain mechanics such as sh

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Trap

Trap is an item class of two-handed ranged weapons that requires dexterity and intelligence to equip. The trap weapon grants a skill instead of a default atta

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Titan Ascendancy Leveling Guide

Titan is an Ascendancy class for the Warrior.

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Resistance

Resistance is a form of damage reduction that reduces damage of a particular type by a percentage. Players and enemies all have a resistance stat to each of F

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Gem

Gems are a type of item that either grants a skill (skill gem) or modifies a skill (support gem) when placed into a gem socket.

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Endgame Builds by Cost Tier — Budget to Mirror

Deadeye is an Ascendancy class for the Ranger.

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Life

Life (also named Health or Hit Points) is the main health source of a character or monster and it decreases when receiving damage; when it reaches 0% the enti

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Spirit

Spirit is a resource that can be reserved to activate persistent buffs, summon permanent minions, and enable trigger meta gems. Characters have no spirit by d

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Energy Shield

Energy Shield (abbreviated as ES) is one of the three core defences that can be found on equipment. It is associated with intelligence and acts as an addition

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Fire

Fire damage is one of the five damage types, and one of the three types of elemental damage. It can be mitigated by fire resistance.

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Boots, Armour & Movement Guide

Armour is a defence that provides damage reduction to incoming physical damage from hits. The % of damage reduced depends on the size of the incoming hit rela

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Passive Skill Tree

The Passive Skill Tree is a vast, interconnected web of passive skill in Path of Exile 2 that allows players to customize their character's attributes and pow

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Deadeye Ascendancy Guide

Deadeye is an Ascendancy class for the Ranger.

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Uncut Support Gem

An Uncut Support Gem is a currency item that can be used to engrave a support gem. It is a type of uncut gem.

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League Start Build Picks — Community Wiki Reference

Path of Exile 2 uses three main attributes - strength, dexterity, and intelligence - and its twelve playable character classes (or simply classes) are each as

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Block

Block is a type of damage mitigation that typically negates all hit damage. Block is primarily obtained from shields. Shields can also provide an active guara

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Buff

A buff is a status effect that applies a beneficial bonus on the entity. This could be produced by a skill or by interacting with certain mechanics such as sh

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Lich Passive Skills Reference

Lich is an Ascendancy class for the Witch.

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Evasion

Evasion is one of the three core defences that can be found on equipment. It is associated with dexterity and provides an entropy-based system of damage avoid

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Gemcutting

Gemcutting is a mechanic involving the creation of skill gems and support gems by using uncut gems. This process is also referred to as engraving. An addition

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Melee

Melee generally refers to one of two things:

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Projectile

Projectiles are entities created by attack and spells that move along a trajectory and can hit other entities. They typically travel in a straight line from p

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Passive Skill Tree

The Passive Skill Tree is a vast, interconnected web of passive skill in Path of Exile 2 that allows players to customize their character's attributes and pow

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Totem

Totems are structures that possess certain effects, from the ability to cast spells to summoning entities that physically attack nearby enemies. Friendly Tote

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Cold

Cold damage is one of the five damage types, and one of the three types of elemental damage. It can be mitigated by cold resistance. Cold damage can inflict c

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Gem

Gems are a type of item that either grants a skill (skill gem) or modifies a skill (support gem) when placed into a gem socket.

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Witch Class & Skills Leveling Guide

The Witch is an intelligence-oriented class that specializes in minion and occult spells.

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Minion

Minions are allies summoned or raised by the player's skills, effects, or buffs. Minions do not benefit from modifiers to stats that affect the player charact

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Uncut Skill Gem

An Uncut Skill Gem is a currency item that can be used to engrave a skill gem or level up an existing skill gem to the level of the Uncut Skill Gem. It is a t

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Uncut Spirit Gem

An Uncut Spirit Gem is a currency item. It is a type of uncut gem that can be used to engrave a persistent buff skill. It is a type of uncut gem.

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Gem

Gems are a type of item that either grants a skill (skill gem) or modifies a skill (support gem) when placed into a gem socket.

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Attribute

Strength, dexterity, and intelligence are attributes. Attributes are often requirements of gems and equipment. Characters gain inherent bonuses from attribute

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Balance Patch Summary — Skill Nerfs & Buffs (0.5)

Path of Exile 2 (also known as PoE2) is a sequel to Path of Exile, and is developed by Grinding Gear Games.. It is currently in Early Access.

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Critical hit

A critical hit, or simply crit, is a property of hits that gains a damage multiplier based on its critical damage bonus. Additionally, critical hits can often

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Lich Ascendancy Starter Guide

Lich is an Ascendancy class for the Witch.

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Passive Skill Tree

The Passive Skill Tree is a vast, interconnected web of passive skill in Path of Exile 2 that allows players to customize their character's attributes and pow

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Physical

Physical damage is one of the five damage types. Most martial weapons deal physical damage. Physical damage from hits is mitigated by armour and other sources

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How to Cap Resistances Before Maps

Resistance is a form of damage reduction that reduces damage of a particular type by a percentage. Players and enemies all have a resistance stat to each of F

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Curse

Curses are Debuffs that apply a certain downside on the recipient, weakening them. By default, the player can apply a maximum of one Curse on an enemy, which

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Debuff

Debuffs are negative effects that deal damage or penalise an entity's stats, either for a set duration or when a condition is met. Unless otherwise stated, de

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Herald

Herald is a gem tag for persistent buff skills which grant an effect on killing enemies.

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Lightning

Lightning damage is one of the five damage types, and one of the three types of elemental damage. It can be mitigated by lightning resistance. Lightning damag

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Gem

Gems are a type of item that either grants a skill (skill gem) or modifies a skill (support gem) when placed into a gem socket.

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Gem

Gems are a type of item that either grants a skill (skill gem) or modifies a skill (support gem) when placed into a gem socket.

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Trigger

Trigger is a skill behavior that causes a skill's effect to occur during certain conditions, instantly without the need of manually casting socketed skills.

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Mana

Mana is a resource that can be used to pay for the costs of many skills. Mana cost is spent throughout the skill instead of on use; cancelling the skill or ge

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Passive Skill Points Reference

The Passive Skill Tree is a vast, interconnected web of passive skill in Path of Exile 2 that allows players to customize their character's attributes and pow

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Damage

Damage is the process by which a player or monster's life or energy shield is reduced.

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Resistance Threshold Reference

Resistance is a form of damage reduction that reduces damage of a particular type by a percentage. Players and enemies all have a resistance stat to each of F

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Aura

Auras are skills that apply buffs to Allies within a radius, or debuffs to enemies within your Presence radius.

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Chaos

Chaos damage is one of the five damage types. It can be mitigated by chaos resistance. Chaos damage has the effect of removing twice as much energy shield whe

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Sockets, Links & Gem Setup

Meta skills are those that allow you to socket other active skills as support gems. Meta gems are often used to trigger active skills or change its functional

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Hit

A hit is when damage is dealt instantaneously, as opposed to damage over time. Many effects or defensive layers only apply on hit so do not apply to skills wh

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Ranged

Ranged refers to a skill or attack, that is normally performed with a martial weapon, where your character can be any viewable distance from the target enemy.

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