10 TIPS AND TRICKS FOR NEW PLAYER IN PATH OF EXILE 2

Updated: January 2, 2025

Category: Guides | RPGs

1. Do Not Miss Bosses With + Sign

One of the reasons I like Path of Exiles 2 so much is that every map has one or even more interesting bosses.

More importantly, if you open your map, you can see how many there are in each Zone.

They are marked by a Grey Skull icon that fades after you kill them.

If you see Boss Skull with a plus icon make sure to kill that boss.

It will drop a green item with a permanent upgrade for your Character (like resistances for example).

2. What To Sell, What To Salvage

In Act 1 you will get a side quest from a blacksmith that will allow you to salvage Gear Drops.

A lot of people sleep on this option, don’t be one of them.

Even tho this will be a personal choice for many players we suggest you Salvage items with Sockets and Quality items.

Path of Exile 2 Socket and Quality items

Doing so will give you upgrade items, one will allow you to make sockets of your own and the other will let you upgrade your gear.

We suggest selling the rest and buying cheap above-mentioned items from vendors when you spot them.

Speaking of vendors here is our next tip.

3. Check Vendors On Every Level Up

A lot of players said they are struggling with campaign difficulty.

One of the problems we see is they are relying only on gear drops from mobs and bosses.

Vendor’s stocks reset on every level up my dudes and dudettes.

Make sure to check the goods cuz as I found the best yellow items for my char, just from vendor stocks.

4. Use The Upgrade Orbs And Skill Upgrade Orbs

Don’t be a little hoarder for the End-Game.

Some items are very valuable yes and you should not use them until you figure out what you want to go with.

Others should be used freely to upgrade your gear or try crafting new items like Orb of Transmutation, Orb of Augmentation, and Regal Orb.

Path of Exile 2 Upgrade and Crafting material

Feel free to experiment and craft the gear of your dreams.

5. Open a Skill Menu To Check DPS From Items

So you get into a situation where you have two Yellow items.

Both have similar stats and some of them are different and you do not know what the f is better for your character.

Open up your skill menu and check DPS on this little tab right here.

Then equip both items and see when DPS is higher for a rough estimation of what is better.

6. Extra Options Menu On Skills

If click on this Tinny arrow in the skill tab, you will open an extra option menu.

A few things are happening here:

You can see detailed stats.
You can set the skill to use only one of your equipped weapons I or II (they will auto-swap on skill use).
You can choose if your character will attack without moving.

7. All Gems Options For Skills

When choosing gems for skills you can click All Options right here in your skill tab.

Normally you can only choose skills recommended by developers.

While these are good recommendations it’s not necessarily the best for your build, so feel free to experiment.

There skill gems drop like flies.

8. What To Buy With Premium Currency

One Word, STASH TABS.

If you playing the game now in early excess you will have to shell out 30 euros.

The good news is you will get an equal amount of in-game currency.

Make your life easier and buy these stash tabs:

Currency stash tab (1)
Gem stash tab (1)
Quad tab (1)
Essence tab (1)
Delirium tab (1)
Premium stash tab (1 or more)

Now that you have your nice tabs let us help you sort items.

9. Quick Item Sorting

You can hold Left CTRL and click items to sell them or transfer them to stash right away, without needing to drag them.

You can also right-click on your stash tab and set affinity.

That means you won’t have to open individual tabs when you CTRL-click items.

You just need to open up your stash and when you CTRL-click the items they automatically go to their assigned affinity tabs (for example Orbs to Orbs tab, etc).