Path of Exile will be celebrating its 10th

Path of Exile will be celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. For me, even with Diablo 4 just a few months away, it reigns supreme among the many contenders to the crown Diablo 2 crafted—the best action RPG on the market if you’re looking for hordes of isometric monsters and loot explosions.

However, despite clocking a truly alarming number of hours on it POE currency trade , I rarely recommend it to people. It’s dense, complicated, and death can come quickly and repeatedly. With 10 years of challenge leagues leaving indelible footprints of monsters, items, and mechanics, just getting started can be… a lot.

Hopefully, this will help. This guide will take you through everything you need to know to get yourself smoothly to PoE’s endgame. For many, the Atlas of Worlds is what separates Path of Exile from its competitors—a sprawling, labyrinthine system of randomly generated levels that all build on one another in a glorious cacophony. Let’s get started.

(Image credit: Grinding Gear)First steps and picking a build
Every three months or so, Grinding Gear Games releases a new patch, and with it, a new challenge league. All existing characters are moved to legacy servers called Standard, and everyone starts fresh with nothing. When that happens, the internet gets lit up with every PoE content creator and their cute dog putting out guides for league starter builds, and this is where I recommend new players start POE exalted orbs . 

League starter builds generally are focused around two things—the ability to clear content reliably into the endgame, and the ability to do so with few resources. At the start of the league, currency will be scarce. Items will be expensive, and some stuff won’t be available. I could recommend a build to you now, like Toxic Rain Trickster or Righteous Fire Inquisitor, but sometimes a patch will send a build screaming into the stone age, so it’s best to find the new tech.