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Path of Exile is a free to play Diablo-style action-RPG with seven playable character classes and lots of deep gameplay mechanics. This guide will explain the basic systems and offer plenty of helpful tips to get you started on your quest to return from exile!

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Find the starting character that's right for you

Path of Exile has seven playable characters, although only six are initially unlockable. The seventh, the Scion, can be permanently unlocked by rescuing her from a cage in the Upper Scepter of God area of Act 3.

• Duelist: He fights with melee attacks and can also summon an AI minion to fight alongside him.
• Templar: Fires projectiles, including three balls of lightning at once and a chain lightning attack.
• Witch: A female spellcaster with high intelligence.
• Ranger: She uses a bow and is extremely dexterous, but can wield swords as well. Despite being a glass cannon, the ranger is my class of choice.
• Marauder: A melee fighter with tremendous strength.
• Shadow: A dexterous and intelligent fighter, he uses short-range weapons and traps during battle.
• Scion: She can develop into any character build thanks to Path of Exile's skill system. This makes her an advanced character, and she must be unlocked later in the game.

Picking your first character is important, but not as big a deal as in other Diablo-style games. Path of Exile provides an unusually high number of character slots, so you can play and switch between all seven classes if you so choose. Also, the time-limited nature of leagues (which we'll describe below) and the likelihood that you might unwittingly create a flawed character build the first time you play all mean that you'll probably be creating new characters before too long anyway.

Follow a character build, but don't sweat it if you're making your own way

Many players prefer to create their own unique character build the first time they play, experimenting with different passive skills. But if you do that, keep in mind that full-character respecs are not an option in Path of Exile. You'll earn a limited number of respec points through natural progression and grinding, but not so many that quickly transforming one build to another is a viable option.

Thus, my advice is to follow a well-regarded build created by experienced players. This will focus your character growth and ensure that you have an endgame viable character when the time comes. Here are some quick beginner-friendly build recommendations (current as of launch):

• Duelist:Sweep or Die by Chayman
• Templar:Quad Glacial Cascade Totems by Weallgotissues
• Witch:Whaitiri's Arc Witch
• Ranger:NeverSink's In-depth Tornado and Archer Guide
• Marauder:Double Strike Tank Guide by ShihanPiotr
• Shadow:Say_Ten's Melee Shadow
• Scion:Dark Pact Self-Cast Ascendant by Zarasi

If you're making up your own build, be sure you understand these features of the passive skill tree:

• Starting Areas: Your character starts with points in a certain area, but you can also feel free to work towards other classes' nodes.
• Paths: Much of the skill three consists of paths that offer a +10 bonus to one of the three core stats. Try to pick up the stat you need as you work towards other features on the tree.
• Clusters: Groups of similarly themed nodes, often with an icon in the center of them. Clusters come in many sizes and often have a gold-colored skill that is especially powerful and desirable.
• Keystones: Unique nodes that change the balance of game mechanics for your character. Each one has an amazing buff but also a significant penalty to consider.

Join the league that best meets your needs

Leagues are game world variations that affect how the game plays. There are several types of leagues, although not every type is available at all times. These include:

• Standard: The basic game without any modifications. Despite the name, standard is not the most populated league.
• Hardcore: Standard and other league variants can be played in Hardcore as well. This challenges players to complete the game without dying. Should you die, your character will be demoted to the standard league. Note that hardcore leagues are less populated than non-hardcore leagues, and thus make it harder to group up and trade with other players. There are currently no Xbox Achievements for completing the game on hardcore, so only play hardcore if you really want the challenge.
• Challenge: These offer special prizes for completing league-specific challenges, with numerous challenges available to go after. These are generally available for three months, after which point any characters created for the challenge league will be moved to the standard league.
• Solo Self Found: These league variants lock the game to single player, preventing all trading and grouping. Naturally, this increases the challenge. Solo Self Found leagues are not available on Xbox One at launch.

Even though standard sounds like the default mode, it isn't. Path of Exile players generally concentrate on the current challenge league. Thus, you'll want to consider how important difficulty, multiplayer features, and the economy (item trading, etc.) are to you when selecting a league.

Learn the gem system and take advantage of support gems

To gain new skills in Path of Exile, you'll usually need to equip gems into sockets in your gear. Any class can use any skill, but gems do have stat and level requirements. Gems can only be equipped in slots of the same color.

There are two types of gems:

• Skill gems: These add an attack, spell, projectile, or trap/mine.
• Support gems: These gems modify supportable skills when equipped in a linked socket (one that has a line drawn to another socket). The support gem must be compatible with the gem in the linked socket in order to have an effect. For instance, a support gem that affects projectiles won't do anything to a linked melee attack gem. Make sure your linked gems are compatible!

Equipped gems also level up as you earn XP, receiving ten percent of the base XP awarded from monster kills. Your character experiences an XP penalty when revisiting lower level areas, but that penalty doesn't apply to gems. Thus you can quickly level gems by replaying areas that are a few levels lower than your current level.

Don't pick up every single piece of loot you find

Every piece of loot you acquire takes up varying amounts of space in your bag. To carry as many possible things at once, you have to move items around and squeeze things into the allotted spaces. Even then, your bag is bound to fill up quickly if you pick up every single item you encounter.

The trick, then, is to ignore items that your character can't use or are of low value. Item rarity is indicated by colors:

• White: Normal
• Blue: Magic
• Yellow: Rare
• Orange: Unique

You can pretty much ignore white items unless you're about to head back to town and have the room to spare for them. Rarer items are usually worth picking up and selling, even if you have to hold onto them for a while. And of course, any item that looks better than your current gear is worth grabbing – even if you have to drop something else temporarily while you equip it.

Don't neglect life and mana regeneration

By default, characters don't regenerate life but they do regenerate a tiny amount of mana every second. You can manually refill life and mana by using the appropriate type of flask. Flask charges automatically refill when visiting a town or hideout. They also gain charges from killing enemies. Equipping better flasks increases the amount of life or mana regained, and can have other effects as well.

Still, you'll have a hard time if you only rely on flasks for life and mana. Gear and passive skills can increase regeneration for either stat or even steal life and mana from hits and kills. Considering the life and mana restoring properties of gear is important to keeping your health and mana pool up. At bare minimum, you want to have some life regeneration so you can recover health between battles.

Begin your return from exile

These tips should start you on the path towards returning home and exacting revenge on those who exiled you. One more tip to consider: if you're struggling with the game solo, you can usually invite a friend or player from town to help. Don't take your exile sitting down!

As our review declares, Path of Exile is one of the best Diablo-style action-RPGs around. It won't break the bank either, as it's free to play on Xbox One and Steam. The microtransactions are unusually fair as well, so you don't have to buy anything to succeed. But if you want to support the developers, there are several optional microtransactions – including limited edition premium bundles.

The First Blood Bundle costs $19.99 and includes $20 worth of currency, an extra stash tab, and a weapon effect. The Oriath Supporter Pack costs $29.99 and packs $25 worth of currency, a weapon effect, and a special social frame.

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The Skill bar is an element of the user interface used to assign skills to keys. It appears in the bottom right of the interface, next to the mana orb.

The skill bar can hold 13 active skills, three on the top row and five on the bottom with an additional five that must be brought up in order to access. By default, the top row is bound to mouse buttons and the bottom row to the keys Q, W, E, R and T with the second bar requiring the Ctrl key in order to bring up. These can be changed in the Options menu in the Input tab, except for Mouse Left which is fixed.

Support skills applied to an active skill are shown on the skill bar as letters in the upper right of each active skill. A list of which letter corresponds to which support can be found at Support gems.

Tooltips

Hovering the mouse over a skill icon on the skill bar will show a tooltip with information about the skill:

• Name
• DPS / Avg. Damage
• Mana Cost / Mana Reserved
• Attack Time / Cast Time
• Description
• Specific details of what the skill is doing

The DPS calculation will take into account cast/attack speed, critical chance and multiplier, damage modifiers from passives equipment or buffs, and the effect of most supports. However it will not look at secondary damage (such as that of Explosive Arrow or damage over time such as Bleeding. The DPS section will be absent if a skill deals no direct damage.

If a skill has a cooldown or is a Vaal skill, or otherwise usually only hits once, the DPS section will be replaced with 'Avg. Damage' and ignore cast/attack speed.

Similarly, if a skill reserves mana the Mana Cost section will be replaced by Mana Reserved. If a skill uses no mana the section will be hidden.

The details section will list most numeric details of how much damage a skill does and other effects and modifiers. However, some details are not listed here and can be found in the more complete Offense tab of the Character Screen.

Changing skills

Left clicking on a skill icon will bring up an icon list of all active skills available to the character, as well as three default actions 'Default Attack', 'Move only' and 'Clear this slot'. Either left or right clicking on a different skill will set that skill to the chosen slot. Skills which cannot be activated from the skill bar, such as triggered skills, will be greyed out in this list.

If a player sockets the same skill multiple times all will appear in the list, and can be distinguished by their supports. If a player has a Mine skill socketed, the Detonate Mines default action will also appear in the list.

When skill gems are removed or moved between equipment items, the skill bar will remember a skills location on the bar and return it if it is available. If 'Clear this slot' is used to clear a selected skill, the skill will not automatically return to the bar when changing gear.

Changing weapons

Skills in alternate weapon slot do not appear in the list of skills. When swapping between weapons, skills which are not already on the bar, including those from the newly available weapons, will fill available slots, unless they have been cleared as described above.

Order of skills

The list of available skills is three icons wide, and as high as is needed for the number of active skills available. 'Default Attack' is always first, and 'Move only' and 'Clear this slot' are always last. Active skills will then populate the list starting with each of the skills in the first gem slot of an item, then skills in the second gem slot of each item, and so on. Empty sockets or support gems will be skipped, as will any gem socketed in an item with red background because its requirements are not met.

Items are checked in the order:

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• Chest Armour
• Main Hand
• Off Hand
• Helmet
• Amulet
• Left Ring
• Right Ring
• Gloves
• Boots

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The Detonate Mines action will always appear after the last of the first gems (i.e., after the first socket in boots but before the second socket in chest).