Path of Exile 2: Mastering the Best Builds in Early Access
Choosing your first character in Path of Exile 2's early access can be daunting, especially with six classes and two Ascendancy classes each. This guide highlights top-tier builds for each class, offering a head start in your adventure. Note that future updates may shift the meta.
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Witch: Minion Summoner Infernalist
This build maximizes the Witch's summoning potential, offering a balanced and beginner-friendly experience. The Infernalist Ascendancy avoids the high-risk, high-reward gameplay of Blood Mage. You'll command an army of undead and demons, supplementing their attacks with fire support and strategic positioning.
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Key Skills: Skeletal Brute, Skeletal Cleric, Pain Offering, Skeletal Arsonist, Detonate Dead, Flame Wall, Raging Spirits, Vulnerability, Summon Infernal Hound.
Gameplay Tips: Maintain fire support for your minions, utilize Vulnerability debuffs, and master strategic positioning during boss fights. Experiment with minion combinations for optimal battlefield control. Remember that Pain Offering sacrifices a minion to empower others.
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Mercenary: FrostFerno Witch Hunter
This hybrid build combines fire and ice attacks, utilizing two crossbows and dual passive skill trees for devastating effects. It's effective throughout the game.
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Key Skills: Permafrost Bolts, Explosive Grenade, Gas Grenade, Explosive Shot, Herald of Ash, Galvanic Shards, Herald of Thunder.
Gameplay Tips: Freeze enemies with Permafrost Bolts and Galvanic Shards, then unleash explosive attacks. Utilize Hypothermia and Biting Cold for extended freeze duration. Optimize your gear and skills for maximum fire and ice damage.
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Monk: Herald of Thunder Invoker
This build prioritizes defense while delivering substantial damage, making it ideal for newcomers. The core skill is Herald of Thunder.
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Key Skills: Tempest Flurry, Tempest Bell, Staggering Palm, Vaulting Impact, Orb of Storms, Storm Wave.
Gameplay Tips: Utilize early-game Quarterstaff Strike, then transition to Herald of Thunder for lightning-infused attacks. Master mobility with Vaulting Impact and crowd control with Orb of Storms and Staggering Palm.
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Warrior: Armour Breaker Warbinger
This balanced build uses a two-handed mace for high damage and survivability in melee combat.
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Key Skills: Mace Strike, Stampede, Leap Slam, Ancestral Warrior Totem, Scavenged Plating, Hammer of the Gods, Seismic Cry, Attrition.
Gameplay Tips: Early game focus on Earthquake and Shockwave Totem for crowd clearing. Mace Strike excels against single targets. Utilize Warbinger Ascendancy skills like Anvil's Weight and Imploding Impacts to break enemy armor.
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Sorceress: Ember Fusillade Stormweaver
This build offers a strong balance of damage and survivability, enabling rapid progression through the campaign.
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Key Skills: Spark, Flame Wall, Ember Fusillade, Solar Orb, Firestorm, Flammability, Blasphemy (Enfeeble).
Gameplay Tips: Utilize Spark and Flame Wall early, transitioning to Ember Fusillade with Scattershot and Controlled Destruction. Maximize fire damage with Flammability and a strategic skill rotation.
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Ranger: Deadeye Grenadier
This build prioritizes area-of-effect damage and mobility but lacks survivability, making it challenging for beginners.
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Key Skills: Permafrost Bolts, Fragmentation Rounds, Flash Grenade, Gas Grenade, Explosive Shot, Explosive Grenade, Rapid Shot.
Gameplay Tips: Utilize a crossbow for high physical damage. Freeze enemies, then unleash a barrage of grenades and explosive shots. Prioritize evasion, elemental resistances, and movement speed.
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These are currently top-performing builds, but remember that game balance and new content will inevitably influence the meta. Choose wisely, and good luck in Wraeclast!
