Path of Exile

Pohx's Righteous Fire / Chieftain

tiny cliff notes -- current league: Settlers of Kalguur

• figure out safehouses / catarina
• work on finishing tier 12 maps
• watch for level 80+ flasks
• figure out how to get skitterbots going
• get 90% max resistance (missing 2 points)
• craft needed boots
• craft needed sceptre
  1. Fractured Base - implicit 26-40% elemental dmg (lower number is fine)
  2. iLevel should be 81+ to allow for T1 rolls
  3. need around 20 Screaming (or higher) Essence of Fear (minion damage, need Spiritual Aid node on passive tree)
  4. Regal Orb - turn sceptre to rare
  5. use Essences until there's an open suffix
  6. Craft Fire Dmg Over Time Multiplier
     BEST: look for +1 To Fire Gems, +1 Spells Skills (all), or high rolls %Fire Dmg Over Time Multiplier/Damage Over Time Multiplier
  7. Bench Craft Fire Multi (if you didnt get it on Essence or Fracture), otherwise Damage Over Time

  

Once you hit maps (early mapping): Spec into Betrayal (for unveiled mods), Essence (for crafting options) and Kirac for chance to drop a map +1 Tier higher -- running any Kirac mission will refresh his shop where you can buy maps

look for jewels: Master of Fire and Brutal Restraint

FIND or BUY uniques: Cloak of Flames (body), Rise of the Phoenix or Dawnbreaker (shield), Immortal Flesh (belt), Pyre (ring, but only for low level mapping).

6Link Armour (can farm Emperor of Purity on Tier3 map Overgrown Shrine)

upgrade to level 21 -- Righteous Fire and Fire Trap

get all gems to 20 quality

looking into "phasing" buff - Watcher's Eye jewel, Quartz flask, Freedom of Movement node

Atlas Passive Tree

• Packed With Energy to juice Niko/Delve to give 1 minute boosts for any Sulphite/Sulphite Chests found on a map (obviously spec into Delve for more chances of Niko on a map)
• Test of Loyalty
• Intelligence Gathering
  EXPEDITION specific
  • Extreme Archaeology node - just (1) explosive with +radius
  • exchange exotic coins with Tujen for currency

FLASKS

• check item level on flask, use highest you can get
• roll for Gain Charges On Hit - high ilevel (85+?) can roll 5-7 charges
• also looking for decent suffix along with charges (+armor, +% life/second (unveiled from Catarina (Betrayal))
• use Instilling Orb at end to get USE ON FULL CHARGE

Fractured Items can be found:

• Heist / Expedition & Expedition Logbooks / Abyss (juiced with atlas tree nodes for increase rarity and increased pack size) / Harvest Crafting (fracture random mod, random prefix, random suffix)

Getting 90% Max Resistances

• two jewel sockets - crimson (chimeric spark and +2 max fire res)
• gem Level 23 Purity of Fire (upgrade to 21 corrupted, +2 levels granted by gem modifiers)
• Body Armor or Boots (not unique) with +1 or +2% max resistance mod
• passive node: Barbarism

Oct 3 2025

quick notes for map start:

• Mainly you get cards by running other cards. Maps that you have not yet unlocked can only drop on other maps that are connected to the map in the atlas by the dashed line. Once you complete the map, they can drop on any other map.
• If luck isn't on your side, you can also buy maps from Commander Kirac or check the Atlas Missions he offers to see if he has any maps you're missing. If you hold down the Alt key while hovering over the map with your mouse pointer, you can see if you have already completed that map.
• If Kirac doesn't have any new maps, you can still complete any of his Atlas missions. This will renew its entire range of cards.
• Scouting reports allow you to reroll Kirac's offered Atlas missions.
• You can turn a card into another card of the same level with an Orb of Horizons. To do this, simply right click on the sphere and then left click on the card you want to transform.
• Three of the same card (same level and type) can be exchanged with each NPC for a new card with a higher level.

Jan 24 2024

Path of Exile may be the current best ARPG on the market, but my god, is it not easy.

I don't mean that its so complex you can't wrap your head around it, but the fact of the matter is you need to devote some serious quality time to understanding what the hell you need to do because there's so many systems at play at any given moment.

That being said, the actual gameplay is a helluva lot of fun. Current league as of the moment I'm writing this is Affliction, and the Wildwood has been an absolute blast to play. The whole mechanic is just a lot of fun, seems like a natural extension of the game itself and offers a great boost to the RNG with its buffs for more and better loot.

No Path of Exile page is complete without showing the skill trees! Passive (character) points and Atlas Tree progression, huzzah.