Tip for new players from some one who has almost 4k hours in the game. Just play the game. find something that you find interesting and go with it. without any guides. Yes it will suck but it will teach you why it sucks. As you gain experience with the games mechanics you will eventually get better. This game is fun when you discover stuff on your own. Also if you get stuck at something and dont know what something does go to the games wiki its the most help i got.

Tip for people making tip videos for new players, don't use acronyms for things. We don't know what it means!

Advice for people having trouble capping resistances around mid-game. When you get to act 6(the act right after your first resistance penalty), do Lilly's quest to unlock a bunch of level 1 skill gems for sale. Depending on your resistances, pick from purity of fire(if you lack fire res), purity of ice(if you lack ice res), purity of lightning(if you lack lightning res), or purity of elements(if you lack res all around). I strongly recommend prioritizing your fire res, because the next boss and enemies do primarily fire damage.

>Says the guide is for beginners >Immediately uses an acronym without explaining it

EDIT: I just started a discord community for gaming/Path of Exile discussion, memes, and party play! Anyone can join here: discord.gg/qphjQC9 Hey guys, here's a list of every tip in the video+timestamps, so you can jump to whatever you're most interested in: 0:47 - build guides 1:53 - path of building 3:45 - resists 5:11 - vendor recipes 7:44 - loot filter 9:22 - how to trade 11:49 - trade macro

this looks like il need a 4 year degree to play

as a new player who has just started 3 days ago, i still dont understand most of whats covered in this video lol

I would add to the recipes section , that the chromatic orb recipe is really useful early on, I got to 400 chromatic orbs(around 55 chaos orbs) by the time I reached 75. The recipe is an item with at least 3 linked sockets with at least 3 different colours. Loot filters will show these items, just dont miss out on them . :)

I might be a noob, but the charm of the game (IMO) is to make use of what i can find along the way. That's why i wouldn't recommend a newbie to start trading and min-maxing on their first few characters. Still, kinda glad that there are guides for people that just want to safely power through the game with a meta build. I thought these tips would be like: "If you need a few Chromatic Orbs, try searching for it's recipe equipment on the weapon/armor shops."

I'm one of those players that quit Diablo after Blizzcon 2018. Loving PoE so far, was already following some of these suggestions, and picked up some new ones. In Act 8 now with an Arc Witch.

I can't afford to have a phone... did i come to the right place?

1. Build Guides 0:47 2. Path of Building 1:51 3. Resists 3:45 4. Vendor recipes 5:08 5. Loot Filter 7:43 6. How to Trade 9:22 7. Trade Marco 11:49 I highly recomend watching the full video if you are new to the game this is just a guide for you guys thank you all hope this helps some people

Left Diablo behind to play PoE... Turned out to be my best decision of 2018 ☺️

Installing multiple third-party programs... most tips assuming players are interested in the economy game... these are not tips for new players man.

Thankfully with 3.5.1 you no longer need to group with people to trade because of the trade system in place, and this guide is for pc users only, it's a wonderful thing that most of these features are built into the console version without the need to do anything! WOOT!

9:48 that volatile dodging skills :D

I just started and have been having fun playing my own way, making my own build. I'm in LOVE with this game 😘

I sold my phone so I could buy tickets to BlizzCon.

Lvl 33 Ranger and I haven't played PoE since 2012! Time flies. I'm such an old timer. Thank you for the excellent tips.

rofl instant like for the passive-aggressive immortal reference at the start XD

60 hours and following a guide for my duelist...and i had no idea about most of the things said. Jesus.

You forgot the other important newbie trap game mechanic similar to Cap Your Resists, its called Path of Lifenodes. Common mistake with new players is not building enough Life, and then getting destroyed from Act 6 onwards. I've found it helpful giving a "minimum recommended" life amounts for new players so they can keep that in mind when putting points in the stat tree. Like Act 5 Kitava 1400, Act 10 Kitava 3100, Merciless Izaro 4000 and so on.

Great video man, very detailed. To add, for new/intermediate players (in trade league): 1) If you have a problem with labyrinths, go to www.poelab.com/. They have a tool called poelab compass and provide different information to guide you through. 2) Eventually you'll have to sell your stuffs to other players for profit. You need to buy a premium stash tab using real-life money. It is totally worth it. 3) If you are really new to the game, be careful in attempting to use a currency into an item if you don't know what you are doing. Some notable examples are: - Slamming an exalted orbs to low-end items. - Using divine orbs to cheap uniques. - Using orb of fusings to 6-link a non end-game items. - Using chromatic orbs to get multiple off-colored sockets. In short, dont blow up your currencies, specially at low levels. At earlier stage, minimize the use of currencies to upgrade your gears. Use the bulk of your currencies for a very large upgrades at a later stage. You are better off saving/selling your currencies and just buy the items you needed, but this is always not the case. currency.poe.trade/ is very helpful for trading currencies. 4) Level up additional gems in your secondary weapon set. Check out poe.ninja/challenge/skill-gems to see which gems are worth leveling up. 5) Don't screw up your gears if you don't have a backup plan. Some notable examples are: - Trying to upgrade from 5-link to 6-link. Sometimes you will end up with less links than your original one. - Trying to corrupt an item for a better implicit mod. Worst case scenario, the item will brick and becomes unusable at all. Don't forget that one screwed up item might screw up your entire set or even your entire build. 6) Watch out for items that have red+blue+green linked together and items with 6 sockets. Loot them, they are worth selling to any NPC.

Number 1 tip I would have needed on the first character was the difference between increased and more xD

I Uninstalled & Reinstalled the game over 10 times before I hit lvl 10. My first character was self-made Frost Blade and it was garbage af :D I talked to a lot of people and they helped me out and taught & explained a lot to me.

Attention New Players: You do not need to group or chat for trading! The Console tells you everything the pc addon tells you in 3.5.1! And no you won't fail miserably if you make a mistake in your passives! There I fixed the video!

Easy tip for beginners: 1) Use Summoner “witch” 2) Type “minion” in the search bar when you’re buying gems so you know what to focus on. 3) Type “minion” in the search bar when you’re upgrading your passives in passive tree to see where all passive minion skills are and just focus on pathing to them all. 4) You don’t need super defense, just find armor and weapons that can compliment your minions. 5) stand in the back and let your army wipe out everything in the front. 6) You will definitely finish the game with this build and you can farm up necessary items to use the Build guides when making a new character.

I gotta say I´ve never been so proud of myself for finishing a games story without any guides or external help than I am with POE...now I´m just gobbling up every guide I can find to do a playthrough with a build thats actually able to do some endgame stuff! :D

i did a Arc Build - Elementalist Witch , my first character and first play though and i beat the story and epilogue in 13 hours with very few guides

New players should know that flasks are a massive part of their DPS and, unless if you are running Mind Over Matter or a Zerphi's, should not be running mana flasks at all

As an intermediate player i knew all these things, but GREAT tips for new players.

I would also suggest saving every flask you find. 3 flasks sell for 1 flask of a better quality [ 3 small life flasks -----------$> 1 medium flask ]

Loot filter a touchy subject, yea I agree. While Filterblade have all the functions available, I prefer to construct my own filter, cuz I don't like 3000+ lines of codes, when i can just do it with 300 or less. Using Notepad / FilterMaster to customize is faster than Filterblade when the code is just so short. Often time there is sudden need of some minor changes for some specific needs, be it personal needs or economy changes, it is far faster to DIY rather than relying/waiting for Filterblade to update their version...

been playing for a year now and since i already know most of this, im finally happy to call myself an intermediate player. :D

Thanks for this guide! I started playing during the quarantine, and most of the "beginner guides" out there assume a basic working knowledge of verbiage and content. Even just looking up a first build, I was assaulted by all the different tags (lab, delve, etc.) the only thing that saved my sanity was many years of endgame wow.

I have played now several characters in the last 3 leagues between lvl 70-94 ... i now know these informations ... but hell yeah ... if i would have known this earlier ... ♥ very nice guide!

I just started playing on ps4 as a Templar.. Just hit Act 6 yesterday.. Havent had any issues yet and its my first character. Only just now running into Legendary enemies that are almost too strong. Using two handed maces and a lot of summoning abilities. Who needs multiplayer when you have 25+ minions lmao

great vid! i hope to learn much from this game. still can't believe this thing's free to play.

Thanks for this video guide, Nathan. After I threw away my mobile phone I came to PoE. I read a lot of guides and stuff but this here is the most comprising so far. Very important information!

Tip : If you want some one to reply quicker when trading, First turn on timestamps in your settings, next After you pasted your whisper in game wait a few seconds, up to a minute. Then whisper the person you want to trade with, "you there?" And usually you will get a response as the trader usually doesn't use timestamps, and will think that you've been waiting a while. I do this so I know it works.

Well I'll be a noob and on ps4. Someone pray for me

I knew all of these things, and I'm still a noob. More advance tips please :D

the game is actually not that complicated, but your guide made it very complicated.

The "Phys damage to a weapon" with a rustic sash is the most important vendor recipe for new players. And the chaos recipe is a newb trap because rings and amulets by themselves can sell for 1-10 chaos with a simple crafted mod (and you don't have to carry around all the other junk).

Some 'newb traps' I see from time to time: -Regarding the passive tree, damage isn't everything (in fact it's often the least important thing to prioritize). -Don't think of the starting classes as archetypic roles or classes. They are nothing more than a starting point on the passive tree and do not define or limit the type of character you will play. -This game has a lot of depth. Do NOT measure your learning curve against those who have played this game for hundreds/thousands of hours. Be comfortable with your ignorance and learn at your own pace. I had a buddy telling me everything I needed to know and I honestly forgot 90% of everything he said until I learned it for myself. You're not going to be able to soak in advice/tips at face value and become a wiz at this game. You still need to put in the time and that's okay.

Me being console player like: Path of Building? Loot Filters? Tons of other shit that I can't use? Cool.

you're right! brand new player here! after the announcements of PoE 2, I decided to start the game :)

We, Diablo Refugees thank you for this guide and expect more content like this!

If a game needs this kind of "high-profile" efficiency tips to be playable, it stops being a game...Or at least a casually-fun one.. I don't think PoE needs this kind of efficiency, except if you are a hardcore competitive gameplay junkie, looking for leaderboard-wrecking crap. I have to say, any kind of New players coming here looking to get good tips to play a fun game is not gonna leave this page getting what they wanted/needed..

This is not a Game, it's a JOB!

Yep Diablo Immortal brought me here, but with the new update I saw PoE was coming to PS4! So glad because my pc is busted and really wanted to dive into this game. Saw your budget build for Gladiator and now Im here! Awesome guides!!

Hi, veteran player here, but THANKS !!! Thanks SO DAMN MUCH for the little bit of etiquette you are trying to convey to new players. (talking about the whole buying/selling process here) Nothing more annoying than an impatient player opening 25 trade requests in 20 secs because you're still exchanging with another "customer".

Super helpful for a noob like I! Keep up the great content!

It has been a few years since I last played POE, but I didn't find it all that complex or challenging to build my first character. The skill tree is quite self-explanatory and I think it is common sense to focus on certain strengths and not get distracted, which is quite easy the way the skill tree is built. My first character was a Necromancer and I knew from the start that I would focus on getting the most and strongest minions possible and then invest the surplus skill points into mana and energy shield. The result was a pretty min-maxed character, as far as I can tell. I had enough skill points to get all the minion-related skills and then some. When I checked back into the game a while ago, after a long absence, I noticed my skill tree was reset and I was refunded all the skill points and would have to spend them anew if I were to play again. So I assume they must have made some bigger changes to warrant that. Whether what I said about the skill tree is totally obsolete now and it suddenly is a cryptic puzzle, I don't know. However, I did successfully play through the story mode on the first attempt with that character, but that doesn't mean I didn't run into issues. What I found challenging was that the boss of the labyrinth was really hard to fight with my character. Even though I had invested a lot of spare points into "energy shield" and didn't want my character to be a glass cannon, the guy kept one-shotting me and I had to kite and run around like crazy every time I fought him. Even stopping for a second to cast a spell or summon a new skeleton meant instant death. When I later befriended some other players with barbarian and rogue characters, they seemed to have no problems with the guy and the last 2 times I fought him, I only defeated him because they helped me. The issue with that was that the A.I. of my minions wasn't good enough. They stupidly kept running after my kiting character instead of fighting the boss or his mobs. It is quite a problem when your character is fragile and easy to kill to offset that your minions are so strong and tough, but then your minions don't fight because the A.I. isn't up to the task. So that is quite a balancing problem, especially since that is such a important boss, whom you have to fight again and again throughout a play-through. Only a few of the story line bosses were anywhere near as hard to defeat as that guy.

Never heard of vendor recipes, thanks for the tips!

Playing this game really makes me appreciate people who made those guides. They really put the time in lol

So lets recap.... but seriously tell me this isn't describing a completely fucking broken game ... LOL 1) You will horribly fail at this game on your first character 2) You will fail so hard you will not even finish the story mode on your first character 3) Lower your expectation and prepare for an impassable difficulty spike 4) To avoid the above follow a pre-planed character you can find online 5) Go download Path of Building as you will learn more from it then actually playing the game. 6) Jack all you resists or prepare to be one shotted 7) Look up online your vendor combo selling / crafting recipes 8) Go to another website and get a loot filter so you don't waste time picking up crap 9) To trade go to one of two other websites to see listed items 10) Open chat with the player you want to trade with and then prepare to be ignored 11) Finally download this other fucking trade maco program, figure out how to use it, and somehow this fucking improves your trading experience 12) Launch some fucking script and it will help you navigate your fucked up inventory and make sure your not getting ripped off on trades 13) But be careful as after all that bullshit you'll still likely get inaccurate fucking info 14) Learn to manage and collect the two dozen different trade currencies 15) And remember after all this you can just start over if you fuck up your build or find you are getting horribly owned

Nice video! Although in one point I think you are wrong. If you are about to buy something and you join the sellers hideout, its actually considered rude to trade him. Always give him time to search for the item and don't poke him with trade requests - and wait until he trades you.

I actually had a bad time to figure how to trade when i began. All the hideout stuff and so on... First time i watch somebody explaning that. Really really really useful for new players. Great Job Nathan!

Even after playing for years, for me the hardest part is getting enough resists and life on my gear/tree while still doing enough damage for the build to be viable. Delve was the most successful league I've had in the game with a good Toxic Rain build, but damn if it still isn't a pain.

playing blind is the best for this game, just experiences with diablo 1 and 2 will do... and some rpg basic knowledge.

Im level 63 and still noob. But game is amazing.

Physical damage recipe - sell normal weapon together with blacksmith's whetstone and magic or rare rustic sash. You gonna get the same weapon with +% to physical damage (I believe somewhere between 50 and 70%). Two tips considering this, first, you can check the percentage you'll be getting out of the recipe, so if you have few pieces of the same weapon, pick one with highest %. Second you should whetstone the weapon before trading it in, quality on it stays after trading, and improving white weapon only requires 4 whetstones, it's especially useful when you're just starting with first character of the league.

I made it to level 60 something before hitting this dps/survival check with my first character you're talking about. I was cruising along wiping out droves with little effort. My build was simple, caster using frost bolt greater multi support and spell echo. Was shooting 14 blobs of death per cast. Probably pretty basic to you guys reading but I thought I was pretty bad ass at the time. Herald of ice, hatred and another aura I can't remember. Almost all of my mana was reserved, had enough mana to cast 2 maybe 3 spells before being oom, but my regen was fast enough I could just spam waves of ice bolts. This game blows my mind sometimes. Like, in the good way.

As a guy with over 2000 hours in POE I can help out by saying this. I have 2128 hours and I still don't know everything, I dont have to in order to play the game. It's not like diablo were people on the second day of the season min/max and everyone pushing plays the same build. It's a dynamic game that allows for you to make a character that can keep up with the top builds or in rare cases, even beat the top builds. Figure out how the skill gems and the passive tree work and make a build and work on it until it works for you. Play the game with people, it's a fun game without them but wiping with a party could be particularly funny if you dont take it all too seriously. Day one only matters to racers and neckbeards. You dont have to join in on day one, I find myself busy with work and family that I dont come into a league until maybe a few weeks into it. Day one only matters for those of the hardcore fanatics and the culty neckbeards who are rude to others because of the pain they cause themselves. In conclusion path of exile is a fun game that you can be creative on with your build and once you figure out the skills and the passives, a few mates and you learn to ignore the neckbeards and the racers( although fun to watch this is what they do for a living so I doubt any new/'casual' players can play that much.)your time will excel with much joy. And remember, praise the great toucan daily for good drops in global chat ;)

this is no way a "tip" for new players at all. Holy shit wtf?!

This is actually the most useful and helpful new/intermediate player friendly guide I've found on youtube. Thank you.

Just got past Avarius fight in Act V on my first char. I died about 30 times, that fight showed me I have ALOT to learn.

Never.. repeat... I NEVER create prescribed/required builds in these games like PoE, Diablo, Guild Wars etc. even means unfinished game. I can´t enjoy game as fucking SHEEP! Always playing with my own builds.

This video is WAY too indepth for new players. If youre a new player, just go play the game! Yes your character will suck and you might get stuck at some point, but youll have fun along the way, and if you didnt, then the game might just not be for you.

Quick tip: If you get into Maps and want to make some MONEY fast, chain random maps as fast as you can. You will get alot more money this way than with the chaos recipe because you can sell items like fusing and jewellers (from six sockets). And if you want to get even more look into shaping your atlas that's where all the money is. ;)

been playing on and off from alpha to breach and then a little more after breach and I still feel like a new player and still have to watch these kinda guides

Ugh, I thought this was a noob guide, but the amount of information here is just daunting. :( I think if PoE is really so complex I'll just pass. As someone who has never played PoE before, so far I think this game is asking way too much from a casual player.

they claimed they are immortal, we must prove, they are not. PoE

As a new player with only 1 character (lvl 36) I feel every new class needs to be explored ineffectively to get a feel of its range. Use all the powers you come across, switch regularly, and you'll learn what you like/dislike, what works and what doesn't, and how you want to specialize in your next one. As a witch I'm still deciding between elemental or necro. Also I use dual wield wands, but I don't spec into the passives that give bonuses to those yet as I'm expecting high level gear to completely change my playstyle.

Thanks man. I'm pretty new to PoE and this actually helped me a lot!

Trading in Poe is the worse experience I ever seen in my life. Its all wrong and it´s "ok", because it´s wrong for so long time that they are used to it. I will never agree with that system. Great video.

Play this game, to do so download 30 other programs.

This was amazingly helpful. I was stuck in analysis paralysis , keeping me from playing and this tips have helped a ton!

I play POE b/c i have no phone :( As a new player, i use the Enki guide for the Act part and use another build guide for my builds ;)!

I'll stick with diablo 3 😬

"If you took the time to read every tutorial, wiki and watch every video out there, you'd never actually get around to playing the game..." Me, IRL. :(

It's gonna sound dumb, but if you're starting as Duelist/Ranger/Shadow it doesn't matter what your build is. Pick up a bow and Shrapnel Shot. The skill has the arrow + cone to double it's damage. 2 Iron rings + Added Cold/Fire, it'll get you to lvl12 easy even without related passive allocated. (lvl12 is where the first fun skills are)

Hrmmm, too complicated and niche.

How is this a "fun" game when its more complicated than my essay ?

The way people talk about this game makes it seem more like a job than to have fun. When I first started the game, I stated how using a build guide seems like it takes out all of the fun of playing and discovering things yourself, and I was immediately met with a wall of insults and "have fun dying" from global chat. I get that it might be harder later on, but the community really sucks at encouraging new players.

To New Players : Just try the game! It's awesome! You don't need all these to play the game decently! Playing PoE is not complex or hard. PoE just has tons of possibilities and I don't know what is wrong with that. Don't try to MIN/MAX from the start, it's POINTLESS anyway. Just play the game and enjoy the ride!

2:25 That... is not a skill tree. No. That is a fucking skill jungle. Thank you for showing me this, I'm deleting the game immediately, because I don't want to commit a doctoral thesis on how to play a fucking video game I do for fun. This is why I jumped from DnD 3.5 to Pathfinder FFS... (yes, there is an actual thesis on metamagic for DnD 3.5).

I’m a new player on PS4 so 40% of this vid is worthless...

Im new to the game and played by using a build. Was able to do the story, but this guide is awesome! So much information, thank you!

7 tips for the most experienced players. 1Pathfinder 2Pathfinder 3Pathfinder 4Pathfinder 5Headhunter 6Pathfinder 7Legacy Vinktar

PS4 hypppeeeee

What is corrupted? Im tired of guides for noobs what only experts understand. ...

Best advice for noobs: link your favorite spell projectile gem with fork. Now cast that at enemies. Once you begin to understand the potential value of support gems, you'll understand how important it is to learn how each support gem works. Too difficult/want to kill enemies easily? No problem: Link 'fireball' to 'fork' as well as either 'lesser multiple projectiles' or 'greater multiple projectiles' (but not to both). Then link 'freezing pulse' to 'increased critical strikes' and 'increased critical damage'. You can link more supports to either of these if you have enough linked gem slots available. Now you can kill huge groups of enemies with fireball, or strong bosses with freezing pulse. Alternatively, anything that strongly resists one spell may be killed with the other spell. There are many other successful strategies and classes, but this will net you enough damage to play up to the end of the story. The next best advice is to focus your passives on a defensive build. You'll want passives that boost your defenses, life, or damage, in that order of preference. When you get the hang of linking support gems properly, you'll never again have to struggle with not doing enough damage (unless you're weapon-based and need to upgrade your weapon), so what you'll notice first about high-level enemies is that they also have little difficulty killing you. Recommended defensive setups for beginners: * Armor only * Armor and Energy Shield * Evasion and Energy Shield Any defensive setup must also be paired with maxed fire, lightning, and cold resists. Getting extra above max is also useful. You can get resists most easily on rings, amulets, and belts without sacrificing other important attributes. You can also save many of them in your stash to pull out later when fixing up your resistances. Try to max out your resists by level 40. Keep checking it as you go to higher acts, because there will be act effects which reduce your resists by some amount. Lastly, the most common way players die to high-level enemies is from reflected damage. You'll have to look online for tips to mitigate that, but I'm mentioning it here because it's difficult to figure out what's happening when all you see is one moment you're creaming the enemies, and the next you're dead for no apparent reason. If that happens, it was most likely reflected damage. More defenses than damage will help you resist reflected damage. By the time you're an expert player, you'll be using a wide variety of auras, minions, and other special skills, but you don't need to fuss over learning these. Take them one step at a time and just try using them yourself. Rule of thumb: any time a guide says to use something and you don't know what it is, just try it out yourself. Abandon the guide for a moment and just play the game. Once you come back to the guide, it'll make a lot more sense.

I finally downloaded the game. Got to level 29 after about 8 hours while following a very nice Marauder build. Without the build guide I would be stuck staring at this skill wheel for hours without making a decision...This game really brings me back to Diablo 2; while introducing way more complexity character options than Diablo ever could.

Best tip put it down and play something else

At the start of the league, farm Hillock for Oni. Keep farming and selling them for 3/4 of the league. At the end, use all of your mirrors you’ve made to make a T-1 character and play that for the remainder of the now “dead” league. Super easy! Super fun! Super viable!

coming from D3 and WoW my head just exploded while watching the trade and trade macro section... awsome conent they have put in

Act 8 Doedre was my difficulty spike when I first started playing lol

You're a saint for making this. I've been really getting into this game (after dabbling on and off since 2014) and this has been so incredibly helpful.