Path of Exile: The 5 best tips
We have put together the best 5 tips for "Path of Exile" for you and tell you which items are worthwhile, what you have to pay attention to when distributing your passive skill points and which steps you can take to make everyday exile life a little more bearable.
The best tips for the free Diablo 3 competitor Path of Exile
Path of Exile is a Free2Play action role-playing game and is very popular. We'll show you how to survive in the merciless world of Wraeclast.
Exile tip 5: Focus on your rage
- Do not pick up every scrap item, but focus on gold, rare items as quickly as possible. You should always collect "Scroll of Wisdom" (item identification), "Portal Scroll" (teleport to the nearest town) and all other upgrade items with a slightly brownish lettering.
- These "orbs" can be used to improve weapons and other items or even to reset passive skill points. The most valuable of these "orbs" are also used as currency in "Path of Exile". These include "Exalted Orbs", "Divine Orbs" and "Chaos Orbs".
- You can also turn normal, white objects into valuable items. To do this, you must use the "orbs" above to upgrade an item. With a "Blacksmith's Whetstone" you can increase the weapon quality, for example, and with an "Orb of Alchemy" you can turn the normal weapon into a rare one.
- White items are especially valuable if you either connect three differently colored skill gems (red, blue, green) or have more than five skill slots. Since these items are extremely rare, they are easy to sell and, above all, can be improved with "orbs".
Exile tip 4: The right skills to survive
- Decide on a so-called AoE skill as early as possible. "AoE" stands for "Area of Effect" and denotes an action or a spell with an area effect. These attacks allow you to kill multiple enemies at once, which quickly becomes necessary for survival and also provides plenty of experience points for leveling your character.
- Note that you can use any skill with any class as long as your character meets the attribute requirements. You can see your attributes (strength, intelligence and dexterity) by pressing [C]. So you are relatively free to interpret your hero and should use this to your advantage.
- In the later course of the game you can use various "auras". These skills offer you certain bonuses when activated, such as faster mana regeneration. However, you do not need to put all auras in your hotbar (keyboard assignment of skills). It is sufficient if you select and activate it using one of the buttons in the hotbar.
Exile tip 3: Don't forget your defense
- You absolutely need elemental resistance to lightning, fire and ice damage, as you will quickly get a lot of magic damage. In Path of Exile, rings are an easy way to provide some level of resistance. It is best to always carry around a number of different rings in your inventory and exchange them before you encounter groups of opponents with certain damage. In addition, you should plan a certain number of passive skill points for elementary resistance.
- Decide early on whether you want to be dependent on life or energy shield and then assign your passive skill points accordingly. You should achieve at least 100 percent additional from one of the two. Otherwise you die a quick and glorious death even with sufficient medicinal potions.
- Of course, it is also possible to neglect your defensive and build a more offensive hero. But especially beginners will have problems with such an orientation. So, in general, make sure you always do enough for your defensive. An all-crushing warrior is of no use to you if he lies on the ground after a hit.
Exile tip 2: Make your life easier with attitudes!
- Not only beginners run the risk of overlooking the many chests, boxes and objects dropped by opponents. With the large mass, this is difficult even for more experienced players. Fortunately, the "UI" item in the options menu offers you many setting options to adapt the user interface to your preferences. Here you will also find the "Always Highlight" option (see picture). Place a checkmark here to always highlight recordable objects on the screen.
- In the same window, you will also get rid of the annoying window that shows the global and trade chat by default. For a better overview, uncheck "Join Global Chat" and "Join Trade Chat". Press the [Enter] key to call up the chat window again later.
- Moving objects from your character's inventory into your chest ("stash") would certainly take years of your life if there weren't a useful key combination: Hold down [Ctrl] and click on an object with the left mouse button in your inventory and you will find it in your chest.
- It is almost certain that you will not just die in "Path of Exile". And often the button assignment of your mouse will be to blame. Because at the beginning you not only move with the left mouse button, but also attack with it. So you accidentally run into opponents' hordes from time to time - and often can't get out again. As soon as you have received your first skill gem (or inserted it into an object), you should assign your left mouse button with "Move only". You do this in the lower right corner of the screen by clicking on the corresponding symbol. Here (in the so-called "hotbar") you can also assign the keys for your skills (right mouse button, [Q], [W], [E] and [R]).
Exile tip 1: Enjoy your first game round
- "Path of Exile" is an extremely complex action RPG that will initially surprise you with its sheer abundance of item types, skills and possible ways of creating characters. Even if you have already played similar games like "Diablo" or "Torchlight", you first have to find your way around (keyword: "The perfect build")
- That is why this advice is to be taken very seriously: Enjoy your first game run and do not linger on the skill of your character at every opportunity. The chances are very high that your first character will ideally become mediocre even with plenty of thought. Rather than play your time on any forum "How do I build the perfect character?" to spend.
- If you don't want to just start playing, at least don't overdo it in the first run of the game. It is best to plan only 60 of the 120 passive skill points in advance. That is enough and ensures you sufficient damage and defense bonuses. Play it safe with the official character planning tool.
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