Path of Exile 2 Dawn of the Hunt Update: List of Everything New (Plus Helpful Guides and Tools!)

Path of Exile 2’s largest update yet, Dawn of the Hunt, adds a ton of caller contented and changes the crippled successful galore ways. IGN and Maxroll person teamed up to bring you tons of new, adjuvant guides and builds to instrumentality connected the daunting swatch of caller worldly that we volition bash our champion to summarize here: Patch 0.2.0 brings much ways to play with the all-new Huntress Class on with 5 Ascendancies, Azmeri Wisps to chase, shiny caller Uniques to hunt for, and a revamped endgame experience.

A caller people joins Path of Exile 2’s roster of characters, the Huntress. This Azmeri mislaid everything erstwhile she utilized a Virtue Gem to support her home. So present she wields caller skills successful summation to her trusty Spear. The Huntress is simply a Dexterity people that shares a starting country with the Ranger successful the lower-right information of the Passive Skill Tree. Spears person a premix of close-range melee strikes and agelong scope projectiles with bonuses that incentivize the usage of both. Create an elemental aboveground with Frostbolt, driblet a Whirling Slash, and unleash a flurry of Twisters, earlier leaping backmost successful to bash it each again. Another caller point people is Bucklers, a peculiar shield with the quality to Parry regular attacks. When you Parry an force you enactment them disconnected equilibrium expanding the onslaught harm they take. Unlike Souls games, determination is nary Parry model and you tin usage the Parry to animation cancel different skills making it rather agile. However, each clip you Parry your stun metre increases and erstwhile the barroom is afloat you are dense stunned for 2.5 seconds, which is apt to effect successful your untimely demise.

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In summation to the caller Huntress class, Dawn of the Hunt adds 5 caller Ascendancies to Path of Exile 2. After completing a Trial of Ascension, your Ascendancy further specializes your people by unlocking caller synergies and catering to unsocial playstyles. The Huntress has 2 Ascendancies to take from, Ritualist and Amazon, and the Warrior, Witch, and Mercenary each get 1 caller option.

Ritualist

The Ritualist learned successful the depths of the Wildwoods, that powerfulness is achieved done sacrifice. You tin bargain bonuses from Rare monsters, oregon sacrifice a information of your ain wellness for a random bonus. With Corrupted Life Force, you summation a accomplishment causing adjacent enemies to turn Volatile Blood Boils, slay them to infect surrounding foes with Corrupted Blood a almighty degenerative effect that deals Physical Damage. The Unfurled Finger Notable grants a 3rd ringing slot, this is particularly potent erstwhile paired with Mystic Attunement and a high-end ring. Lastly, the Ritualist has a assortment of charming bonuses making it easier to combat unsafe elemental effects.

Amazon

An Amazon strikes swiftly. Elemental Infusion consumes charges to adhd elemental harm to your Attacks, and Infused Avatar gives a accidental for your projectiles to payment from the infusion without consuming it. Critical Strike and Penetrate further standard damage, based connected accuracy rating, which is peculiarly notable due to the fact that Dexterity classes person casual entree to accuracy. Defensively, Mystic Harvest opens up entree to leech, a betterment furniture usually constricted to Physical damage, and Azmeri Brew makes Flasks acold much versatile. Lastly, her Predatory Instinct and In for the Kill Notables assistance monolithic bonuses against Wraeclast’s astir unsafe foes.

Smith of Kitava

The Smith of Kitava wields the Devourer’s powerfulness to his ain ends. This ascendancy is harder to nail down, arsenic galore of the bonuses similar Temper Weapon, Maifest Weapon, and Fire Spell connected Hit are the benignant of happening you request to play with to genuinely understand. However, Coal Stoker and Forged successful Flame supply immoderate of the astir almighty defenses successful the game. With Coal Stoaker, you request to dedicate little of your suffixes to resistances, meaning there’s much of them to usage for damage. Maximum absorption is incredibly potent, with adjacent arsenic small arsenic +5% Maximum Resistance mitigating astir 20% of the elemental harm you take. Lastly, there’s Smith’s Masterwork, the quality to forge yourself a customized thorax portion astatine the outgo of immoderate Ascendancy points. How utile this is depends connected wherever Living Weapon, Against the Anvil, and Heat of the Forge autumn arsenic you lone get 8 Ascendancy points to administer amongst each the passives. With that said galore of the passives including, Dedication to Kitava, Support Straps, Flowing Metal, Molten Symbol, and Kitavan Engraving each person potential.

Lich

A Lich wields forbidden power, adjacent astatine the outgo of her soul. First, determination are immoderate fan-favorite nodes from the archetypal Path of Exile successful Rupture the Soul and Dominion Over Flesh. Being capable to curse enemies to marque them detonate into piles of loot is ever a bully time. Soulless Form provides a unsocial mode to lick mana by expanding your maximum life. It besides splits harm betwixt your beingness and vigor shield which is utile erstwhile you person casual ways to retrieve both. Eternal Life further enhances this effect, due to the fact that your beingness cannot alteration portion you person vigor shield immoderate harm divided to your beingness is ignored truthful agelong arsenic you person vigor shield active. Atziri’s Distain splits harm to your beingness allowing you to disregard adjacent much damage. Then there’s Necromantic Conduit and Blackened Heart, a mode to supply a important harm buff to yourself oregon allies, and what amended allies beryllium than the mindless dormant bound to your command? Lastly, Crystalline Phylactery, Price of Power, and Eldrich Empowerment connection coagulated bonuses to a assortment of builds.

Note: determination is simply a flimsy mistake successful the graphic, Blackened Heart should beryllium the node aft Necromantic Conduit and Dominion Over Flesh should beryllium the node aft Rupture the Soul.

Tactician

The Tactician ne'er works alone. This is simply a support-focused Ascendancy for the Mercenary class. It provides a assortment of bonuses focused connected Auras and buffs. A Solid Plan is peculiarly noteworthy arsenic it’s usually hard to standard your Spirit without utilizing Sceptres. With Suppressing Fire and Right Where We Want Them, you tin Pin foes to forestall them from acting, adding different assemblage power effect to your party’s toolkit. Unleash Hell! Is a unsocial accomplishment that gives you idiosyncratic artillery, summon them to unleash a barrage of withering occurrence onto the battlefield.

With each caller league, comes a caller league mechanic, and for Dawn of the Hunt it’s Azmeri Wisps. Follow the lights and slay immoderate monsters they empower. Each Wisp enhances the rewards of immoderate monsters it empowers portion giving them a assortment of lethal bonuses. For example, a Cat Wisp gives empowered monsters Critical Hit Chance, whereas a Sacred Wisp upgrades the monster’s tier, turning Rares into Unique Bosses! Each clip you brushwood a Wisp it seeks retired a Rare oregon Unique monster to infuse, greatly expanding the creature’s spot and its rewards.

You tin brushwood Rogue Exiles, NPC invaders who combat similar players and adjacent wield almighty items. If you’re capable to slay them, you get each the items they’re wearing, but beryllium warned, if they slay you they flight and instrumentality their riches with them. Rogue Exiles supply a antithetic benignant of situation since their builds enactment similar a player’s, with a wide assortment of accomplishment combinations connected offer. These foes thin to beryllium much agile than astir bosses, but aren’t arsenic tanky. Keep an oculus connected their Unique items arsenic these tin beryllium highly valuable, and whitethorn marque the brushwood overmuch much difficult!

Dawn of the Hunt brings sweeping changes to Path of Exile 2’s endgame experience. The extremity is to marque mapping much breathtaking by providing players with much random encounters portion reducing tedious engaged work. You tin present usage up to 3 tablets successful each Tower, this reduces the magnitude of engaged enactment needed to heighten the adjacent maps and maximize your loot. To equilibrium this, less Towers spawn and they person been revamped to beryllium much rewarding. Mechanics tin spawn successful Towers and they are guarded by a Unique Boss.

The Corruption mechanic has besides been changed, you present take betwixt clearing each corrupted map, oregon rushing to the halfway to purify the cluster, changing the rewards, and unlocking the caller purified representation type. You tin take to workplace the corrupted zones, slaying further enemies successful hopes of gaining currency and uncommon items. Alternatively, you could unreserved to the nexus to purify the portion successful hopes of obtaining much Fraturing Orbs. This is simply a crafting currency that locks an affix connected an point with 4 modifiers, making it unmodifiable by immoderate means.

There’s a wealthiness of contented to explore. In addition, Unique Maps contiguous peculiar challenges, each is hard but rewarding. The Fractured Lake (pictured above) rewards you with exclusive basal types that person much Prefixes oregon Suffixes than are usually possible. A Crystalline Cavern presents you with a country afloat of Essences to claim. Each 1 you decision further empowers the boss, making the situation astatine the extremity some much lethal and rewarding. Or you could research the Feral Megaliths, a 10-round brag gauntlet that drops tons of loot and exclusive Runes.

Beyond conscionable endgame content, crafting besides got galore changes. You tin usage Corrupted Essences to trade items with peculiar effects. When encountering Rituals to the King successful the Mists you’re present guaranteed an Omen, and Omen rewards are much common. If you research Expedition you tin present usage your currencies to Recombinate items, merging 2 bases successful hopes of keeping desirable affixes.

It’s astir easier to speech astir what didn’t alteration than it is to database everything that got tweaked, adjusted, oregon reworked for Dawn of the Hunt. When GGG said to hide everything you already knew astir Path of Exile 2, they weren’t kidding. In particular, outlier builds similar Archmage Spark Stormweaver and Attribute Stacking Hand of Wisdom and Action Monk saw dense nerfs.

If you privation to cognize much astir the changes successful spot 0.2.0 and person a beardown constitution, cheque retired the Patch 0.2.0 Patch Notes.

Whether you’re a seasoned looking to amended oregon a caller subordinate trying to get into Path of Exile 2, Maxroll’s Comprehensive League Start Leveling Guide holds your manus with step-by-step instructions passim the leveling process. This covers an businesslike leveling path, however to get bully gear, tips to summation your harm and defense, and however to lick communal problems.

Maxroll’s PoE2Planner is updated for Dawn of the Hunt and amended than ever. You tin present import your characters straight into the planner and stock your physique successful conscionable a mates of clicks. The PoE2Planner lets you rapidly assemble the passives, items, and skills utilized successful your build. You tin besides adhd much details similar which bonuses to instrumentality from the campaign, outline a accomplishment rotation oregon nexus to a customized loot filter connected FilterBlade.

Start theorycrafting your ain physique connected the Maxroll PoE2Planner!

On the different hand, if you’re looking for thing to play, cheque retired the Maxroll Builds conception for planners made by the experts connected Maxroll’s Path of Exile 2 team, oregon browse Community Planners for much builds enactment unneurotic by the community.

Dawn of the Hunt has brought a immense shakeup to the physique meta! The accrued trouble nerfs to meta builds, and buffs to underperformers person resulted successful a batch of changes. The Amazon, Lich, and Smith of Kitava person been perfectly dominating the meta during the archetypal fewer days of the league. Here are a fewer of the builds being cooked up by the experts astatine Maxroll.

Amazon

Rake is simply a question accomplishment that easy rips done packs of monsters erstwhile combined with Stomping Grounds, with this planner from ZiggyD you tin unleash carnage crossed Wraeclast. Rake has large mobility, decent azygous people harm and satisfying bleed pops acknowledgment to Herald of Blood. As you support progressing, you tin proceed scaling your physique utilizing Goratha's endgame Bleed/Rake Amazon.

The Amazon is besides adept astatine utilizing Crossbows, harvester Glacial Bolt with Artillery Ballista to wide easy portion besides doing precocious azygous people damage. Because your Ballistae tin onslaught enemies portion you’re dodging mechanics this physique is casual to usage against bosses. Check retired this planner from Palsteron connected however to physique a Crossbow Amazon.

If you’re looking for thing different, drawback a bow and bring wintertime to your enemies with Aer0’s Ice Shot Amazon! This physique uses Ice Shot to wide and Freezing Salvo to unleash icy devastation connected much hard enemies.

Then there’s the bully aged explosive Gas Arrow. This was 1 of the astir fashionable builds for bow leveling astatine the commencement of aboriginal entree and it’s a large mode to get your Amazon to maps. Check retired Tenkiei’s Explosive Gas Arrow Amazon planner for immoderate inspiration!

Lastly a much endgame build, Crouchung_Tuna’s Lighting Spear Amazon! This physique captures the consciousness of a Diablo 2 Javazon by blasting everything connected the surface with lightning. As an endgame physique you request to beryllium successful maps to commencement playing it, truthful usage 1 of the earlier planners done the run and past respec to this.

Lich

Chaos DoT, oregon harm implicit clip skills similar Essence Drain and Contagion excel astatine clearing the surface portion providing accordant damage. This makes them the cleanable prime to brace with the fantabulous defenses provided by the Lich Ascendancy. Check retired this planner from CaptainLance9 to play your ain Chaos DoT Lich.

Why combat unsocial erstwhile you tin bring your ain idiosyncratic service to each battle? If that’s your preferred playstyle past HelmBreaker’s Minion Army Lich is the physique for you. You get fantabulous defenses from Eternal Life and caller Spectres supply you adjacent much mindlessly loyal dormant for your army. If you similar infernal occurrence you tin play a akin physique connected Infernalist.

Other Builds

Here are a fewer much builds connected existing ascendancies:

If you’re looking for a manus holdy Mercenary Grenade Leveling Guide. ZiggyD’s planner takes you done the run and into aboriginal maps.

Stormweaver was 1 of the astir fashionable builds successful 0.1 and if you bask freezing your mode done the run you tin bash truthful with this physique from ZenM: Frost Bolt Cold Snap Stormweaver Leveling.

Monk is accelerated and fluid, filling the surface with particle effects portion dashing to the adjacent battalion to bash the same. This physique from Milkybk_ helps you find your halfway arsenic you progress: Invoker Monk Leveling.

The Smith of Kitava is Wraeclast’s eventual tank, truthful if you’re looking to play hardcore this is 1 of your champion bets. The Endgame HC Artillery Ballista Smith of Kitava physique from Zizaran goes implicit everything you request to cognize to play this tanky artillerist.

With that said, Dawn of the Hunt is marque caller and there’s inactive a batch to research successful the buildcrafting abstraction truthful support a adjacent oculus connected Maxroll’s Builds for much ways to play.

Dawn of the Hunt adds a batch of contented and streamlines the mapping acquisition but the run is slower than it was before. The champion players are already blasting maps and juicing towers but a batch of radical are inactive making their mode done the campaign.

It’s going to instrumentality immoderate clip for the particulate to settee and for the meta to stabilize successful Path of Exile 2 0.2.0 Dawn of the Hunt. If you privation to cognize much astir the champion builds and astir profitable currency strategies support an oculus connected Maxroll’s Meta Section. Their Path of Exile 2 squad is hard astatine enactment penning caller Build Guides and sharing their Planners with the community!

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This nonfiction was created by IGN Staff with assistance from the Maxroll Path of Exile 2 Team.