*BEGINNER-FRIENDLY BUILD GUIDES - 3.23 Affliction League* Below are a few guides you may want to consider for the 3.23 Affliction League. I have created my own build guide for beginners, and it works great as a Leaguestarter, is a lot of fun to play! Beyond that, Righteous Fire got some big changes in 3.23, and until I research more about the current build, I don't know if I recommend it at this time, but I'll still leave a link to Pohx's wiki page. Otherwise, here are some Leaguestarter roundup videos you might want to check out to find a build for the Affliction League. *Salendrak's Blazing Salvo Deadeye Miner* - Hard to find a more detailed build guide that is tailed to new players! And yes - I'm biased ;-) Vid link coming soon! See guide video for current PoB link. *Pohx's Righteous Fire* - A fantastic build for new players, Righteous Fire has a smooth playstyle, and Pohx has literally made a wiki to help people understand the build, including FAQs, crafting guides, and more. www.pohx.net/ *Fezz's Toxic Rain Champion* - I haven't played this build personally, but it has a HIGHLY detailed written guide, and Toxic Rain is and has been a popular league-start build for a while now. poe-beginner-guide.com/ *Other Newer-Player Friendly / League Start Guides* These are generally VERY detailed guides and pretty beginner-friendly, but be sure to watch the videos and read the notes, as they sometimes have some specific items or stats that are needed to make the builds work. Your mileage may vary with these builds! *Zizaran's League-Start Builds* - Explosive Arrow Ballista Champion - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pq6jpqiozMCqgaM.htmlsi=Zwuim9iGj32-l15W Explosive Trap Trickster - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gsp2h9Jevt25hZs.htmlsi=6dTwKkOMfhRdtmCg Boneshatter Juggernaut - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qqt4l9imr6eaaZs.htmlsi=8ZgrRqoO92Kk6za4 Toxic Rain / Poison Artillery Ballista Pathfinder - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gtB2YLGH376VeXU.htmlsi=GcYBDAtlRRr1aQU4 *Subtractem's SRS Guardian* - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nM-Jo6WAvball58.htmlsi=c1KubqdMpY46mc07 *Maxroll Build Guides* If you prefer written guides (that also usually have links to videos) Maxroll.gg is also a great resource. Just be sure to check the ratings of the build to see how beginner-friendly it is. maxroll.gg/poe/category/build-guides?filter[build_guide_type][taxonomy]=taxonomies.build_guide_type&filter[build_guide_type][value]=archive&filter[build_guide_type][operation]=!%3D&filter[misc][taxonomy]=taxonomies.misc&filter[misc][value]=poe-league-starter Still can't decide on a build? Check out these League-Started Recommendations videos from Jorgen and Tenkei: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pbdmfqWgsNuwqWg.htmlsi=3WY3y4hsGnCu8bKS kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bJOmhqqiuN6YfHU.htmlsi=tXHgIK8bVyeUnF06 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/l8iYibOAlqmscWg.htmlsi=JuH3QyXsfGK5y80a

I've been looking for beginners guides that are actually beginner friendly since I started at the end of last league. Thanks for some great guides! Subscribed

I was very close to giving up... This game can be so overwhelming for a new player, seemed like every time I left the hideout I got introduced to a new mechanic without fully grasping the previous one. I've tried to get through many other videos but none explained things well enough to make it click for me until these. Thank you very much for this series, went from getting aggravated to really enjoying the early endgame after watching this series, seriously great work! (ps. I got my first Divine AND Exalted orb from my Righteous Fire exploding random barrels as well today lol)

I’ve watched all of your beginner guides and I cannot understate how valuable they are as a D4 refugee. Well thought out and easy to understand. Eternally grateful for the work you put into these. Thank you so much, I’ll refer back to these quite a bit I imagine. Cheers 🇦🇺 🍻

A year on this is still the most accessible beginners guide for this topic and it's not remotely close. It's insane how bad POE content creators are at speaking to where their audience lives. Great job, thanks, really helpful.

This is the Elemntary School to high school graduation level of education/GED I need. Ziz’s PoE University, now that I reflect on it, totally fit its name with how all over the places, way too expansive, and random jargon thrown here and there at random parts of his videos the series consisted of.

Excellent guide, just what I was looking for. I just beat the campaign and first 3 labrynths on my first character with my own build which I'm pretty proud of. Needed to learn about how to approach the atlas tree and this guide was very helpful with that. Gonna push the endgame as far as I can, wish me luck!

This 4 part series was so useful and understandable for me, thank you very much.

Legit easily the best and most digestible guides for true beginners like me picking up Poe for the first time ever. Great content hope to see even more guides maybe on bossing or a part 2 to this video with the maven eat and exarch

Amazing video! What’s even more amazing is the comment and the description and how you plan on keeping it updated! Appreciate you trying to help new players get into the game.

First watched a year ago Coming back to POE to try and learn mechanics before POE 2 comes out- and here I am again. Thanks for an absolute banger of a video. Subscribed!!

This guide was super helpful Salendrak. Thank you so much for giving a base understanding of what to expect and think about. I'm someone who finally got to maps and finished the story for the first time, and your video helped lay out a few things. As an "end-game beginner" though, one of the things that would be helpful to know is just simply, all of the moving parts that I can choose from, and what kind of things I can get from them, for example... Heist, Blight, Delve, etc... While I know I have the options to pick and choose what I want to do, I don't know what each of them brings to the table, or allows me to change/craft about my items, and the game doesn't do a good job of informing you along the way... Fractured items for example just looked different and shiny when they first dropped, thankfully a friend explained to me how it worked. As a beginner, it can be potentially overwhelming, or maybe you can just be unaware, of what benefits each of the activities brings to the table or allows you to tweak, and all the things going on. Fractured items, veiled stuff, etc, etc (and on top of that some apparently have bosses that can drop specific uniques? If you like farming stuff like that) Have you considered such a guide for your end-game info? Given there are quite a few options to choose from, as a "first time end-gamer" it's all a bit confusing and badly explained in game. :D

What a well spoken lad. I felt like if I were reading my first Lord of the Rings book.

Omg it's Salendrak!❤

The Best Beginner Guide I've watched, will 100% recommend this video for a friend or anyone who wants to play POE. Thanks alot!

I just want to say thank you! i tried playing a couple years back and did exactly what you said.. opened skill tree and went nope.. didnt log back in to check it our again until about a week before crucible. Your videos are amazing and gave me some great info that will help!!!

Best guide for beginners bar none

These videos are the absolute best beginners guides available currently! Thank you!!

The presentation of this series has really been so great. This might seem like an obscure compliment, but truly i cannot express how valuable it is that youre speaking very clearly and plainly. Many guide videos have great info but its very hard to understand what the person is saying.

One of the best guides I wish I found more early. I'm almost done with campaign but this is super helpful. The other guys are great too but this is the format I like presented most. I can actually fully understand what you're saying as a beginner. Thank you!

Absolutely awesome beginner series. Very beginner friendly but also extremely informative. Kudos!

I just completed the campaign and your videos really helped a lot, especially getting through that initial hurdle of wanting to quit after seeing the skill tree 15 mins into the game. Thanks for this content, I don't think I would have enjoyed this gem of a game if not for your videos.

Hey man, just want to say, from a noob to POE, your videos have been a HUUUUGE help. Thank you so much!

30:11 as of this moment in patch 3.21, I'm just about finished up in act 3 and so far I've found my only 2 chaos orbs in chests. As you mentioned, I don't stop to hit every vase or chest, only the ones in that're in my walking path. Thanks for the amazing guide :)

Campaign completed and here I am getting more amazing explanations and tipps from you :D

I must say this guide is AMAZING and helped me tons as a new player. THANK YOU SO MUCH

one of the best build guide writers is engineering eternity, highly recommend watching his guides. though be warned that he recently returned from a like 3 year hiatus from writing build guides so how consistent it will be moving forwards is up in the air.

This was an epic guide to watch. I feel a lot less overwhelmed now. Thank you!

fantastic guide, friend, iv'e watched it two times already

Great guide! been playing on and off since breach League got over 800 hours on steam BUT never got over say maybe tier 3 maps, finally doing it I guess 😂😂 got so many maps, couple of uniques from way back when not even sure they'll work, League stones from that awesome event when every league mechanic was available again and so on , wish me luck! 😂😂

Thank you so much for this series! It has been incredibly helpful to me as I just started this game 2 weeks ago. Now I have a sense of what's going on and where to go. Keep up the great work!

Ive been away from POE for a few years, played for a couple years befoee that. Never noticed tab affinities or the attack without moving checkbox! Thanks for that!

Thanks for these. As much as I love other content creators for this game, they all get lost in the intricate systems while explaining the basics. They also prefer long unedited discussions that is hard to digest for new and returning players. Subbed

Best guides I've seen on YT. Well done and quality made. I might've missed it, but please include Cluster Jewel acquisition and how to craft them for beginners. I can't find a single good guide on this subject.

Thank you so much for these guides, I recently got into to the game bcs of a random cool looking build on a yt video (essence drain + contagion occultist) and without you, I would've been completely lost on what to do and what not to do, I am currently on map tier 7 in standard and it's stil a smooth voyage :)

Thank you for these videos Sal! I have followed the advice from your past 3 vids and have now reached the beginning of the end with my first starter :)

For some reason I’ve always seemed to hit endgame and then put path of exile on the back burner. I think I’m going to try and push through end game this coming patch and this just helps me prepare for that. Thank you for the motivation. Lol

Atlas progression is either 17 nodes to wandering (either side) or full essence. Everything else is mathematically worse progression, (especially center kirac). If you go left side 17 wandering and then branch to get the 5 kirac points (10 % total kirac), this outperforms center kirac wandering.

Best help ever I just hit endgame I play on steam deck and I've done everything without trade would've been nice to know earlier lol. Thanks got a sub from me

" 27:54 Left-Click to Move (NOT Attack) " Seriously, this was about the fifth time I stopped what I was doing while watching your video, loaded the game up, and changed settings to eliminate a minor frustration. Thank you so much! These guides are written with actual new players in mind for a game that is incredibly complex, and has been out enough years that a lot of it's base has forgotten what terms it uses on the regular that actual new players have no context for. I appreciate how hard it can be to keep that in mind, and you did a fantastic job doing so!

I like the way they made this game and how you would want to put a little money into it. I bought the currency stash tab and the premiun quad stash tab (so i can sell stuff). The rest are really just quality of life.. They make stash tabs sales every 3-4 weeks, so you can sync your purchases.

appreciate the video! for the bandit part, I was able to just talk to them again and click "changed my mind" to kill the bandit, didn't need a recipe.

Best poe guide I’ve seen, and it’s not 2h long, insane. Thank you man, and gj!!

These guides are great! Haven’t got passed level 20 in the past but determined to get the campaign done at least :)

Great video! Im also playing off and on for about a decade. I always feel like a new player as I barely reach the endgame before the league ends.

This is so great. I wish you had a guide for every aspect of the game I want some help with. Turns out its been 6+ years since I played (500+ hours pre-steam I think, then another 500 in the Steam era). Whoa boy. I'm off to find a build guide to just have some relaxed play to try to get back into things. I'm old. I'm going to be terrible. But I miss the game especially after watching your vids here. Again, thanks so much for them.

I can't thank you enough for this guide, salendrak. You have, by far, explained the mechanics for Path of Exile in the most easy to comprehend, foundational manner. I have taken a long hiatus from PoE but am planning to come back to it for the upcoming league on the 18th of this month and your guides have inspired me to experiment for my first run-through and see how far I can get before I am steamrolled and have to find a build guide lol. I'd love to make a Marauder Juggernaut since this incoming league is Karui themed!

i played this in the beta and didn't' have two monitors. it was such aids, quit after 3 acts. now i have two monitors, its the best ARPG/game that's ever been made. started a month ago, doing maps .... its really helpful to be told you don't have to learn EVERYTHING at once and i appreciate it. this game is overwhelming and its end game is amazing. gonna have to see what this delve shits about and get that final ascendancy

wow - i only had to wait 1 day between the last video and this one - now im ready to start playing

i start play this game 2017-18 ,yes u need stash tabs fist i try not buy any of this but after some years u need it . currensy, delve if go thare , the div cards is must . and lets dont forget premium for sell items u gonna need it to . and maybe unique tab

For every Escape From Tarkov player, depo managment in Poe isn't impossible without Premium Stashes haha

Thanks!

Thank you so much for this youre a godsend

Thanks, the best beginner friendly content here

Thanks dude. A true beginner's guide.

Ty I’ve been following pohxs TFT guide, it’s been great. The tip about not killing everything when in campaign was needed. I have a bad habit of full clearing every single place and ending up 10 levels to high. RF just makes it so fast to hyper clear. I’m level 61 in act 8 so I’m going to stop clearing

I didnt know you have poe guides! How nice!

New to the endgame ty

Really apprceiate all 4 of these! thank you!

wow bro nice job , i cant thank you enough bro ! u are a true angel exile ;)

The perfect guide for a noob like me, thanx

I would love a 5-10 minute guide on some of the league mechanics!

I'll say the easiest to follow so far was on max roll, and hate to say it but lightning arrow and toxic rain ballista have been the easiest to learn. Just put on auras and 1 button attacks with support gems that trigger other gems. It's not optimal but it helps beginners focus more on mechanics and generally a bit more fun at the start

6:21 gem and flask stash tabs are useful for console players and people who use controllers as it’s a pain to organise with a controller. One thing this game needs is the ability to switch between controller and keyboard like Diablo. I like a controller to play but keyboard/mouse for any kind of inventory Tetris 😅

I remember when I realized Velyna (who’s as nice as she is knowledgeable) had 3 different PoB trees and set ups for league start, mid, and late game! Which I didn’t notice till I finished act 10! Be sure to read a guide thoroughly before assuming

awesome guide and videos ,really ty

I also had a divine in a container yesterday

Thanks for the vid

Thank you for this. I have 130 hours in the game but this is the only league where I ever finished the campaign. Got my ass handed to me while trying my first map though lol

I quit poe after finishing the campaign in the deleve league a few years ago, didnt really understand mapping and got bored but im going to try getting back into the game and hopefully enjoy the end game this time

Good solid content

Sorry im new to poe, In the trials of.... I found treasure keys in urn/chests/trunks. Idk if it was worth it but I managed to almost open all the chests. idk if it was worth it, Got some nice contracts I can do now.

Thanks for the good tips. Especially describing which is the goal of the endgame was helpful. That's what I've been missing. I played the leveling through about 10y ago and now I gave it a new change. I followed my own lightening elementalist build, because that I ended up using last time, even though I started with fire and minions. Leveling was quite easy, except time to time when I made few mistakes, which I was fortunately able to fix. After killing Kitawa, everything became way more difficult and in many maps, there's something that kills me with a one shot and I don't even know what it is. My skill tree is not far from some recommendations, but I have concentrated more on damage and less something defensive, because there was no need. Now I can't level up nor improve my gears, because cost of everything seems awfully high. To get anything good into six link with right colors seems to months worth of slow grinding. I have tried to buy some items, but haven't got answers to whispers or messages and I'm thinking do I miss something or are the all decent and affordable items there just to piss up possible buyers. I have Tabula Rasa and couple piece of pretty ordinary crafted items, but nothing even close to those on sale. For me, it would be best to know what is in those maps, which kills me in an instant and what I'd need to prevent it from happening. I have 5000 armour, and there's no easy way to get more without seriously compromising my attack capabilities.

ive had a couple of divine orbs pop out of pots and chests, so it just made me want to open them edit: also it helps that im playing a RF build, so pots just pop automatically when im in range

Ever since I got a stone of jordan from a chest in Kurast, I always pop chests. lol

Very good videos bro

30:13 hell yeah i got 3! yeah 3 scrolls of wisdom from a pot. hell yeah.

I don't think anything past 20-25 challenges in a given league is achievable by a casual player. If you don't call someone who plays only 8 hours a day a casual, like Zizaran once did :D Also, I wouldn't worry too much about efficiency. PoE is a sandbox, do whatever you fancy, smash em boxes, kill every monster, just make sure you have fun.

Back when Exalted Orbs were the standard bearer of pricing things, most of my Exalts I ever acquired, dropped from boxes/and pots. The same has been true with the Divine Orbs. I've been playing since Synthesis League on ps4/5 but I'm not good at the game and burn out quickly around the start of mapping if I even make it that far in a league cause most the time I burn out just looking for a build to play that's got a comprehensive leveling POB and guide (looking at all you Flicker Strike builds that only show the final results and not how to get to said results!!!) So, all in all, in the last few years, I've only ever acquired a small handful of either Exalts or Divines, and about 2 thirds of them, were from pots or boxes I broke or opened along the way x3 Even in Standard League when I transfer all my stuff I have only like 4 Exalts and 1 Divine x3 I've only had 1 exalt even drop this in 3.25 and I've been playing about 10 hours a day xD

Damn they reeled me in of course its unplayable without paying for tabs😂

hmm thank you I like these tips.

hoping bro gets to 100k soon

I got a divine orb from a weapon rack in act 7.

The game I mean... your videos are very much on point and we'll done and easy to understand. Path of exile.....is not

nice and helpful. would be cool to have help setting up a filter.

Gave up, too much stuff to learn... Gonna wait for poe2

Most of you recommend not to open chests. I also stopped opening because most of them were empty. But i started opening more from Act 4 and got amazing drops from chests including a divine orb which helped me fund all purchases to quickly reach end game. Is everyone missing a lot by not opening chests?

A little tips on picking a guide. DON"T pick up the skill that do fancy play style. Pick up something with DETAILS how to get there, what skill to level, with details leveling tree on path of building, and most important pick up the guide finished at lv85, not at lv99. You can and probably still be a noob with "no" currency at lv85 and most high-end build require expensive cluster gems and tier1 unique. So your first character is better setup just for farming and complete basic target like altar, etc. Leveling your character would be a lot easier and fun with all the knowledge and resource at hand.

OK so maybe it's a good idea to create a secondary character in the challenge league mode to do the challenges. Regular nonruthless. But primary character when first learning the game should always start on standard ruthless. Otherwise, you well get confused as well as find it too watered down (extra easy mode) and exile/uninstall the game off your computer. Like most new users who make the fatal mistake of starting their first time playing on regular challenge league.

biggest ad for the poe store ive seen yet lol

I respect a lot this game but personally I really cannot put myself on following guides while playing a game very seriously. I need to do everything by my own and figuring out everything alone that’s how I enjoy things. I never hook long in this game for this reason when it feels like I need to follow something I just get bored instantly. If poe was more friendly for people who wants to play blind and learn everything by their selfs without feeling overwhelmed this game will be way more better in my opinion.

"If your 2 levels ahead of the zone stop killing monsters" Me that was 20 levels ahead in my first character and 10 in my second

What do you think my chances are at trial and error without build guides? I got tons of experience with complex stat build games idk if that matters or not.

I like your build. How can you make the damage of enemies attack first your energy shield while using eldritch battery?

love this guide. just curious - what hideout were you using in the video? its so spacious

i am now bizzy whit challanges of kalguur leuge i hate it so much i completed it to 13 it is so hard to complete more sadly all for a bunch of free items oh welp back to the grinding hoping to get those challanges someday or not :(

You telling me there is another skill tree as big as the base one *faints

Im so dumb wasted 300 chaos orbs changing the ghastly eye jewel to have multiple good bonuses and didn’t get it. And also in leather belt, trying to get chaos, lightning fire. On the belt itself it was 300 c , and didn’t get it.

Haven't played since delve, is there anywhere that has a good breakdown on all the new mechanics and which is good for newbies (heist. Legion etc)

As far as chests, boxes and potteries go; I’ve looted about 1 exalted orb (back when they were the next tier after chaos orb in trading currency i.e. divine orbs now) and 1 divine orb in current economy. Context: approximately 3k hours played