So I started POE2 about 10 days ago. I'm level 18 or so in Act II.

I see a new league starts Sept 5.

It seems that normally, characters get moved to standard play after a league but THIS specific league appears to go thru 1.0, which releases in Dec 2026.

Question:

As a new player, does it make sense to just stay in Runes of Aldur and keep playing until 1.0 or is there any good reason to wait a few days and play a new character in the new league?

I DID look and I couldn't find a discussion about this so I hope this isn't a crazy repeat post, if so, I apologize :)

THANK YOU!

It's melle.

Ngl that High Templar’s War Regalia looks badass, can we somehow get the pass for us non-PoE1 players. Something to grind for and work towards until the release of 1.0.

Hi there, I was trying to find a more comprehensive guide on soft brick nodes that should be avoided on 0.5.5 but couldn't find any really "extensive" list, so here is a list mostly focused in farming & XP with a few mentions on difficult scalling nodes as well for the ones that want to avoid those.

Group 1 - Do Not Pick

• Reactive Hiveseeding - Adds Hives on nearby maps which block the map from having unstable breaches.
• Survival of the Fittest - Improve Effectiveness on Desert packs but reduce the number of rares to 1.
• The Lost Architect - Enables Zantipi's Medallion to the medallion pool, reducing the chance to get the other medallions.
• I Know Your Childhood Fears - Adds Ancient Liquid Emotions to the loot table, most of them are garbage so you will have a better divine/hour in Simulacrums without this one.
• Escalating Rivalry - Gives Rogue Exiles 5% chance to flee to an adjacent map, particularly bad if you farming Abyss + Rogue Exiles early in the league.

Group 2 - Should Not Pick/Situational

• Living Metal - Allow Azmeri Spirits to seek out and possess Strongboxes, bad if you're trying to send your wisps to the boss, can be useful if you want to farm Hare or try to get Rite of Passage from Possessed Strongboxes (Very low drop chance anyway).
• Man Trap - 10% Chance for Essence Monsters to be Rogue Exiles, if you're farming Essences this will make your farm much slower.
• Secrets of the Ancients - Adds biome-restricted temple room outcomes, reducing the chance to spawn global lineage gem rooms (A hotfix was made in 0.5.3 so I don't know if this is still necessary).
• Any +Item Rarity Nodes - Bricks negative rarity farming.

Group 3 - Difficult Scalling Only

• Bring Me Your Leader - Ritual Summoning Circles have a 5% chance to spawn a citadel boss.
• Hunt the Apex - Lets Azmeri Spirits possess map bosses, can make bosses dramatically harder
• Uncommon Alliances - Rogue Exiles can appear in pairs

Hope that helps.

The immured fury map that spawned for doryani's questline is on a completely unconnected map. I've checked for hidden maps and didn't find any as well as done the jade isles it was connected to and it still isn't accessible

Genuinely, am I just fucked? Like, is there nothing i can do to finish doryani's science now.

Semi-related, the jade isles i did to see if it would open the immured fury map did drop my first rakiata's so that's nice i guess.

Playing on a base ps5 im tired of having such severe frame drops. I love my screen wide explosions but what build do you recommend for what a ps5 can handle?

Sadge

For the past few days my POE2 app constantly crashes and is making the game unplayable. It is happening on both my laptop and PC which are both pretty new and normally play the game at max settings.

Even turning settings all the way down and making sure everything is updated on both computers.

It is still happening!! Is this happening to anyone else??

Killed Zarokh, leveled up, died (~50% to 0% Honour), and failed fourth ascendancy trial; all at once.

I'm going to take a break and lie in my backyard for a bit. Won't try this again for another week, I'm sure.

Stay sane out there.

Hey Reddit, with 0.5.5 dropping at the end of the week I want to know what I’m playing before the reset. Last league I farmed a bunch of sekhemas on my ice shot pathfinder but never hit big on last flame :( so I’m looking to get my get back this league.

I want to know what’s the best build I should lean towards for both selling Sekhemas carries early league start and then transition into quick clears for last flame farming. Would rather not have to level a second character if I can help it.

I know Gemling seems to be the overall best endgame ascendancy but not sure if there’s a version specifically suited better for Sekhemas or another class/ascendancy overall that fits my goals better?

Looking for help from anyone’s that’s run Sekhemas both early league and late league but any input is welcome.

TLDR: Want to know what’s the meta build for Sekhemas farming (both selling ascendancy carries early league and then last flame speed clears late league)

I guess I just want to rant a bit, but the Runestones really take so much of my joy out of the game that I've started skipping them.

And to be fair, I'm able to clear t16 200% Deli maps that are fully juiced for Breach with max rare spawns with only a little difficulty. But then I pop a Runestone in a t15 normal map for a Perfect Chaos and the absolute nightmare it brings forth is completely impossible for me to handle. Invincible monsters that hit hard and spawn other hard hitting, high HP, bullet sponges, with mana drain, super speed and the ability to suck the joy out of your soul. I drop a Frost Bomb, a Sigil of Power and a Mana Tempest and put out every piece of DPS I possibly can and they just smile and punch me right in the nuts.

I dunno, I'll probably catch a bunch of flak about this, but I just wanted to vent about it.

I’m playing Merc and my crossbow shot skill is taking up two slots but I cant remove them. I’ve tried dragging it off and removing it from the skill bar but nothing is working. I don’t know if this is a glitch or it’s just supposed to be like this

Any tips and or trick to start with would be great. Neither of us really got into PoE 1.

Edit: when I start a new character it gives me a ton of starting locations. Is one better than the other or does it even matter?

Thanks all

Hey , looking for a casual but knowledgeable guild , It's been hard to find one that is active

I'm playing the game for the first time and encountered the vaal temple abnd played it for a bit. I only had 6 rooms. I was searching for a guide but it seems like it's veeery complicated. Is this an important mechanic and should I build a good temple?

We are really loving PoE2 and when the three of us were playing together last night (one XBOX couch co-op and one PC in the same room), the question came up as to whether or not we should just buy guild stashes to make sharing stuff easier.

Currently, couch co-op on the XBOX uses my account with all stashes purchased there, and the PC has their own stashes (none purchased yet as he's just starting).

Thoughts?

They surprisingly start to fight each other while I decide to grab the popcorn and watch the show. Geonor then throws a sucker punch at me and wants to pick a fight. Luckily I have my two green imaginary friends with me, and we quickly show him who's the boss in this bar. Geonor, out of his citadel, apologizes for the trouble and gifts us with a fragment.

*Reupload with better quality (still pretty crappy tho, sorry)

How many times have you found yourself revealing almost an entire zone only to discover that a 3-pixel box was covering the portal you needed? A zone you would have finished in 3-5 minutes turns into 15 as you reveal the entire perimeter looking for the way forward. If this happens once or twice per act, you could easily be adding hours to a campaign playthrough.

What if GGG increased the reveal radius of the fog of war on the map? I'm not suggesting anything massive like doubling it, but even 10% could go a long way. People have suggested smaller zones, more objective markers (some of which have now been added), or reducing monster speed and density to make the campaign faster. This is obviously subjective, but I think a slightly larger reveal radius could accomplish a lot without really changing the campaign itself. You'd still need to explore and figure out where to go, but you'd be less likely to miss an entrance you were already right next to.

The average player isn't committing zone layouts to memory, especially when they aren't completely static from league to league. This could make the campaign faster for the average player without cheapening the experience or ruining speedrunning. Campaign and zone knowledge would still matter. And I'm being generous when I say "average player" because I'm a PoE 1 no-lifer of several years and I'm writing this...

Thoughts?

I wanted to show you a bit at 4K maximum settings. Of course, the quality looks low because of video compression, but the image I saw was much better. It's not absolutely necessary, but I tried it for those who are curious.

I am very confused. I am following this option 1 midgame frost CoC build: https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/profile/stone-shield-jtunq9/builds/9cc6ff5b-8913-4e08-8db8-52c42c1f5ad1?ws-ngf5-f7d82102-7e77-4a44-ad24-33b67e8ae7bf=activeVariantId%2C1

Since it also promotes to be "tanky"

But it seems that I can not run T15 maps comfortably (i also have atlas tree fully unlocked). I always get killed by a yellow mob or almost oneshot by a rogue exile mob.

I have 1.5k hp and 2k mana (2.5k mana with buff), since my mana pool is my "energy shield"

My resistants are nearly capped:

And I also have all my ascendancies.

Main frostbol skill is 22k dps with alot of crit hit chance:

So normally I should be running T15 comfortably with this build right? Since I want to farm for the 100-500 div build.

Can somebody point out what I could be doing wrong?

My poe ninja character build link: https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/27e09