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    : Provides massive faceroll boost. However, they have no MS. If you have alternative means to move, use them. Otherwise get something that wont make you feel like a snail.

    : Easy and smooth leveling. The first weapon in each pair is the better choice.

    Aurumvorax: A stat stick. Make sure you use an attack that cant use swords (I cant remember if there are any) or only uses main hand. Can be used for spell casters and summoners.

    is also an excellent first build since the damage is mainly based on the skill gem level. The only issue is ED usually runs into a brick wall around T10 without certain uniques. But when you clear the screen with a single hit and watch your enemies melt all around you, it feels like the perfect golf swing.

    1H Weapons: +weapon range, culling strike (Soul Taker, Hand of Wisdom and Action, Mjolner, Prismatic Eclipse, Scaeva, Hyaons Fury, Varunastra, Dreamfeather, Razor of the Seventh sun).

    Meginords Girdle: A very good choice for phys attack builds. Plus life, stength, some cold res and flask life recovery. Good stuff all around.

    Its important to remember theDrop only skill gemsin the game: Added Chaos Damage, Detonate Mines, Empower, Enhance, Enlighten and Portal.Always pick these up.

    Path of Exile has become one of the leading ARPGs by growing at a steady rate with each new league, the most recent Breach league bringing in a record number of players. Due to the scope, challenge and difficulty of in-game trading, many players are beginning to embrace Solo Self Found (SSF), a gameplay style where a player never trades or groups with other people, only using the items they find. While SSF is currently only enforced through choice,GGG recently announced they are adding a SSF mode to the game with the next league release, which means new challenges and achievements for those who are willing to go it alone.

    Explore everyVaal Areayou can to acquire those highly sought after Vaal gems such as Haste, Lightning Trap, etc. Collecting fragments is also good since once you start running maps you can throw them into the map machine to try and get other Vaal gems or a Sacrifice at Midnight.

    (also known as Pizzasticks or Pizzablast) is the best league starter, annihilating enemies and burning them to a cinder. The reason this wins over the 2 slot is because it doesnt have the proximity  limitation of Warchief Totems, meaning your flameblast totems will continue to cast and kill long after youve run away. It also works beautifully with just 4 links, and doesnt require any custom crafted gear. Note there are 3 ascendancy builds one can follow for Flameblast Totems. The most traditional is the Witch build (the link provided above), which is the most balanced with Elementalist. TheTemplar variationoffers hirophant (4 totems but less damage) and Inquisitor (the most damage, but requires high-end crafted daggers, which can be difficult in SSF). As such, I recommend the Witch Elementalist build first and the Inquisitor second (for those who want to take it all the way).

    Wanderlust: Just get this. MS, Freeze immunity.

    Karui Ward: MS is the main bonus here.

    is another very fun build. The only issue is it requires the Chaos Damage support gem to really shine, but once you get your army of weapons up, it melts bosses crazy fast and has great survivability

    Siosa (the Library) now sells all other skill gems once youve completed his quest, so theres no need to stash all those other skill gems (as defined below)!

    Youll want tohoardsome items in SSF for other builds. This includes Jewels (AoE, Physical Damage, Chaos Damage, DoT, Increased Damage, Max Life + Resists), Uniques (for the 5-trade in prophecy), Jewelry (Tri-res gear pref 100%+ combined), 350+ DPS weapons (axes, bows, swords, etc.) and high spell damage wands (combined 60%+), etc. Leveling uniques are also important as you begin to create other builds.

    Path of Exile 3.1 Abyss Best Starter Builds

    Additionally, when it comes to SSF, the Labyrinth can be a royal PITA depending on the build. Be prepared to get frustrated trying to obtain your Ascendancy points.

    : Culling strike, +weapon range, +1 arrow (6L bows, 6L Atziris Disfavour). Can also do all bows just to get +1 arrow (even for non-end game).

    : If you are looking for a specific unique for your build, always chance the base item. For example, the Essence Drain build uses The Consuming Dark Fiend Dagger. Luckily this is a fairly common drop (in the grand scale of things) but tons of white Fiend Daggers drop as well. If you are running the ED build, chance every Fiend Dagger you find.

    The good news is all play as SSF builds some aspect of progress. Whether its currency, uniques or the Atlas. Progress is constantly made, often when it feels like there is none. Thats the nature of PoE, and its important SSF players remember this.

    RedbeakX2 -The Goddes Bound- Other Weapons. Just Yes. Do it.

    You need level 8 Eleron to do this (and at least 2 exalts). This allows you to add the Can have multiple crafted mods on your item (its a suffix). Multi-modding allows you to fill all remaining affixes (up to 3 prefixes and 3 suffixes) with master mods. This is most useful on weapons with one or two top tier prefixes and not more than one suffix. Hybrid mods on the base item are highly sought after because you cant craft them through a master. Using multi-mod is also very useful for Elerons reduced cost of mana skill augments.

    Another note: If you are using a scepter, you could use an Aurumvorax in your off hand for Even more resistances. Seriously Goldrim + Aurumvorax + 2 Heups = up to 116% all res.

    SSF is really about building, planning and exploring all on your own without any outside influence. Creating multiple characters/builds, raising your master levels, exploring the atlas, gathering uniques and crafting currency. While you can do all of these things while trading, it does have a huge impact to work only with what youve got. This causes players to be more thoughtful about their decisions in the game. Rolling that 2H axe and getting 390DPS may be your stopping point because you only have 300 alts left, whereas if you were actively trading, you could get a 450DPS axe with a few chaos. Its a very different world, and while players would embrace this play style on their own in the past, with the new announcement and upcoming league, players can now pursue SSF achievements and challenges.

    I highly recommend keeping anyJewelsthat are a good combination of core mods used by most builds (e.g. Area of Effect, Physical Damage). Chaos Damage is also a good one, and its also good to have a few jewels that focus on % health and resists just in case one of your builds is deficient in either and needs a temporary boost. When it comes toResistsits also important to alch those two-stone rings!

    Hyrris Bite: Attack speed, AoE, Attribute points. Useable at level 10.

    The first thing a player embracing SSF must do is realize they will probably never be able to pursue the majority of end-game builds that require specific unique items. Want to play Pentagolem? Not going to happen. Want to pursue that awesome ES build that requires a 6L Shavronnes? Good luck with that. Not only will you probably never see the gems key to the Pentagolem build, a player will probably never see Shavronnes, let alone be able to 6L it. On the flip side, if a player does get lucky and a very rare unique serving as the cornerstone of a custom build drops, a new character and experience can be pursued.

    150 fus (5L)     600 Jewelers, 1200 Alt, 4800 Aug, 19200 Tran

    Also remember topick up every quality skill gem you find and stash it. You can trade these in later on for Gemcutter Prisms!

    Ondars Clasp: Can be equipped at level 5 and grants insane bonus for attack builds. If you use twink gear, these gloves will increase your faceroll ability even more.

    Tabula Rasa: For obvious reasons. However, you do not need a Tabula until end of Normal simply because you wont have gems to put in there. So I usually just use prerolled 4L chest pieces until then.

    Karui Charge: Usable at level 24. Now grants attack speed as well.

    Due to the scale and complexity of PoE, SSF is much more challenging than it sounds. Players cannot buy items to balance their resists, acquire key uniques for specific builds, and are solely reliant on their use of crafting resources paired with luck and how they play the game.

    When it comes toMasters, your first goal should be to level all of them whenever you encounter them. People ask which ones they should start out with first in their hideout. I recommend Haku (armor) and Eleron (jewelry). Also add Navali as soon as you encounter her. Once your lead master reaches level 5, create a hideout with them so you can invite 4 masters (to do dailies). After Haku and Eleron I recommend adding Tora and Vagan. Once you get their benches and are able to replace one after leveling, add Vorici to get the Artisans Bench (which youll need later on for sockets, links, coloring, etc.). When I start running maps, dismiss whatever master you just leveled (and has little to no experience loss) to make room for Zana when you find her.Always check Eleron for his mana reduction jewelery and Vagan for weapons where hits cannot be evaded!When you see these, buy them and save them in your stash for other characters!

    This overview and guide talks about how to plan, play, and build while playing SSF during a league.

    is also an excellent crowd pleaser, allowing for great farming of Dried Lake and certain maps.

    Briskwarp-Ashrend-Foxshade-Tabulais my typical setup for leveling EVA based characters.

    Each player has their own style and preference in builds; as you progress in SSF and find specific uniques, youll potentially unlock new builds but those listed above will work great; not just for starting out, but also for progressing through the Atlas and unlocking Achievements/Challenges.

    Crafting is the most important aspect of SSF, andessencescan make all the difference (and even be necessary if one is pursuing Delirium). For those of you who are new to PoE, I recommend reading theCrafting Wikiso you can learn the basics. Im going to outline some of the key techniques of crafting playing as SSF, but first want to give thanks tononeskiion Reddit for laying the framework for the below overview.

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    1 fusing                4 Jewelers, 8 Alt, 32 Aug, 128 Tran

    Lochtonial Caress: Its a worse version of Ondars. However, depending on your playstyle, it might suit you more.

    First, the general consensus isMagic Find is not worth it in SSF. Focus instead on clear speed.

    Before you start crafting be sure to use and

    (SRS) is also a great build that scales well, but there can be issues with targeting in zerg breaches.

    Dont forget to equip a second set of 1H items you can use tolevel up gems on the side, such as Empower or any gems you are going to use once you go 5L or 6L.

    Divination Cardfarming can be rewarding depending on the build and the item one is looking for. One card that any build can benefit from is Humility, 9 of which give Tabula Rasa. Humility drops in the Aqueduct, Channel and Waterways Maps. If you are looking for a specific unique, be sure to check out theDivination Card Wiki Pageand do asearch for your itemto see if its obtainable through the cards. You can then determine where the best place to farm the cards is. There are currently 179 cards in the game.

    Body Armor: +1 all gems, +1 max res, 95% mana multiplier (Every single Tabula Rasa you find, and 6L Shavronnes Wrappings).

    This is probably the most advanced crafting in the game and it costs several exalts just to try. Generally only used on items with 3 high tier desirable prefixes and at least 1 free suffix. One must have Haku at level 8 to craft prefixes cannot be changed and then scour the item, which will only remove the suffixes. Then you slam and repeat or multimod and say its done. But this is as expensive as can be and probably done by a good 0.1% of PoE players.

    Pass on Rings(no good augments) and Helmets (enchants are better).

    Best used on ES gear (Vaal Regula, Hubris Circlet, Titanium Spirit Shield) and other gear with a small pool of mods (armor and belts). Use Chaos until you hit at least two tier 1 or one tier 1 and one tier 2, or two tier two. Resistances are a bonus. Goals are 350 ES on Helmets/Shields, and 650 ES on Body Armor and 150ES on boots/gloves.

    This guide stands solid for the 2.6 patch notes. You can also view theresults of a surveythat shows the first builds players are planning for the Legacy League.

    Bramblejack: Can be equipped right from the get go and that added phys damage is nice for maximum faceroll on attack builds.

    Slitherpinch: Often overlooked gloves, but they are great for attack builds. Can be equipped at level 27 and provides life/mana leech, attack speed and a good chunk of dex.

    Lioneyes Paws: Provides a lot of Str and Dex, 20% MS, some added fire damage and bonuses for those oh, shit moments when you fall with your face into keyboard.

    Goldrim: Perfect right from the start.

    Belts: +1 endurance charge, increased skill effect duration, increased area of skills (Doryanis belt, Sunblast, Headhunter). Would consider rare belts with good mods but crappy implicits.

    Facebreakers: For easy and gg leveling as a melee, especially in the Shield charge meta.

    Fencoil: Can be used for some firestorm trap shenanigans. Plus has life/mana increase, which is nice. I still think 2 wands/scepters is better.

    Geoffris Babtism/Reapers Pursuit

    Ashcaller: I havent tried this one yet, but it looks like it could be pretty good for flame totem leveling, especially if you use searing bond along it.

    The Cauterizer/The Blood Reaper/Hrymnors Dirge

    Dont forget to use the/claim_crafting_benchescommand in order to get benches for masters who arent in your hideout yet!

    Le Heup of All: One of the best leveling items in the game, use 2 of them. All resistances, all attributes, damage and some rarity sprinkled on top. You can get 76% all resistances with these 2 rings and Goldrim.

    Best done on cheap but decent uniques that have the possibility of hitting decent corrupted implicits, but can also be done on rares. This includes:

    Crest of Perandus: Nice bonuses all around, can use really early.

    Lifesprig: One of the best caster leveling weapons. Use 2 of them. Or 1 + shield.

    Also remember once your masters reach level 6, they will offerbulk discountsand deals on converting orbs. For example, Eleron will provide 20 Jeweller Orbs for 32 Alterations (vs. 40).

    Before one begins to play PoE as SSF, there are a few things that I consider to be absolutely required. First, theCurrency,EssenceandDivination Stash Tabsare a must. I also recommend purchasing thePremium Stash Tab Bundleand a normalStash Tab Bundle. This gives 12 tabs outside of the currency, divination and essence tabs (plus the default 4). That should be enough to really get started, butSSF takes a LOT of storage spacesince you must save items for alternative builds. A SSF player quickly finds entire tabs filled with nothing but boots or gloves; that that doesnt even begin to cover the volume of unique items one finds (which are excellent for the 5-unique prophecy trade-in).Storage is king with SSF.

    When playing SSF,taking the extra stat nodes(e.g. +30 strength) can allow your character to use gear and skill setups with high stat requirements. Never hesitate to take those nodes; you can refund them later!

    The first thing a SSF player needs to realize is they will probably never find the uniques they want for highly specialized builds (PoE has nearly 700 unique items). As such, one must be open to working with whatever drops. As mentioned in the introduction, if you want to play something like the Pentagolem build, its not going to happen in SSF. Need the Poison skill? Youll probably need to create a Shadow to get it. Need Chaos Damage? It has to drop, and you could get it with your first character, or not see a single one in 100+ hours of gameplay.

    to make sure your rolls will be at the proper tier and in the proper range.

    Many players wonder when they should start runningMaps vs. the Dried Lake. The general consensus is running Dried Lake prior to level 75 is better due to mob density and vaal spawns (especially for a build like Essence Drain where you can run and pull your drain along with you, clearing multiple screens with a single shot). Plus you can rush Voll and get unique drops. Dried Lake is also very open where quite a few maps are not. The mobs in Dried Lake also never change so one can optimize for running them. Given the importance of securing Vaal Skill Gems (such as Haste and Lightning Trap), Dried Lake is just better for SSF establishing runs prior to 75 (especially with a new character).

    Vendors are going to be your prime source for many crafting orbs, especially fusings, which cost 4 Jewellers Orbs from the Act 2 Vendor (Yeena). Being able to glance at your stash and see how many fusings your stack of 600 alts (for example) can be important when youre ready to try and 5-6L an item. Heres a quick reference to bring costs in perspective. Of course its possible to get a 5L or 6L with just 100 fusings, the below values are based on the average, showing the time and effort consideration for playing SSF and obtaining a 5L or 6L through crafting.

    I recommend a playerpick up every yellow you seeto sell them for alts. Also pick up every tri-colored item you see and sell them for Chromes.

    Ultimately I found the experience to be rewarding and look f

    For those of you who want toget to end-game as soon as possible, heres a gooddiscussion on reddit about speed leveling.

    Ele bows:Silverbranch-Storm Cloud-The Tempest/Doomfletchs prism. The choice depends on how you want to scale your damage. Tempest scales with flat ele (preferably lightning) damage whileDoomfletchscales with physical damage.

    All builds run into a brick wall without the right gear. Whether its due to lack of uniques, jewels, DPS or armor. This brick wall can prevent lab runs, boss completions and getting stuck in the atlas. Be prepared for this. If a brick wall is hit, one of the best things you can do is create another character. PoE was built for this. Embrace it.

    Deerstalker: Essentially a free 5L at level 22 for trap builds. Use only if you cant get a tabula. Otherwise get better boots.

    is my third recommendation. Its fun and very powerful, and like the Warchief Totem, all the player needs to focus on is rolling a great 2H axe. Items are interchangeable with Warchief Totem and the Earthquake build. The reason a player may want to choose EQ over WCT is because they like to bounce around and jump in the middle of the action more often. EQ is also able to do cold breaches much easier than WCT since the anti-freeze buff doesnt apply to totems.

    When a SSF player beginsmapping, the 1 goal is to find Zana and get her in your hideout. The second goal is to manage your map pool. One thing Ive noticed in SSF is I have a ton more alchs than I would when not playing SSF (probably because I go out of my way to acquire as much currency as possible), so I often alch low level (T3-T6) maps when Im starting out just to get the quantity. It makes a solid difference when building the pool. When you start overflowing with low level maps, sell 3 of them to a vendor to get the next tier. Generally you only want to chisel the highest level maps you have, often saving your chisels and waiting until T6 or greater. Remember to use theChisel Recipewhenever you can!

    980 fus (6L)  3880 Jewelers, 7840 Alt

    Save all of your Prophecies until Merciless! The most valuable are: From the Void (Voidheart ring), Jewelers Touch (5L), Fated Connections (6L), and Trash to Treasure (upgrade to Unique). Remember, if you get one of these prophecies and dont plan on using it immediately,SEAL ITso you dont accidentally forget about it and use it on the wrong item!

    is my second choice. Its powerful, easy to scale (just craft 2H axes), has great survivability (swap out Concentrated Effect for AoE when doing Izauro, etc), and is fun. And when you find or craft a high DPS 2H axe, its simply magical.

    Remeber tocheck vendors and masters every level; they can carry 5-6 link items!

    Good for melee weapons (Vaal Axe, Ambusher, Harbinger Bow, Vaal Rapier, Jewelled Foil) and caster weapons (Imbued Wand, Opal Wand, Platinum Kris), Profane Wand and Opal Sceptre). Also good for Jewelry (Steel rings, Opal Rings, Crystal Belts, Resistance Rings, Attribute Amulets, Marble Amulets, Diamonds Rings). Basically you Transmute a white item, then start rolling it with Orbs of Alteration and Augmentation; and if you get a great combo, you use a Regal Orb on it. Be patient though; I had a level 73 Vaal Axe and it took me more than 400 orbs of Alteration before I received the Cruel mod (140%+ physical damage) and then when I Augmented and used a Regal, the additional mods were throw away but I still used it, and it made a huge difference for my 2H EQ Axe build and Warchief totem builds. While I recommend using the above for gear that is at least item level 73, the technique works at any level. This is why its critical to pick up and sell every yellow item you see a SSF player must build up their stash of alts, etc.

    Another frustrating thing is crafting is very expensive at end-game, often completely depleting your resources. You can find a 6-socket L73 Vaal Axe and be excited to get that 140%+ physical damage roll, but 600 alts later, it isnt nearly as fun or exciting when you realize you have to go back to farming currency to try and roll it again in a few days.

    : I only suggest transitioning in it if you have at least a 5L, 6L if you have orbs falling out your ass. You can equip it at level 46 and it with Goldrim will keep your resistances capped for a long time.

    PoE is such an extensive and complex game that while one can just jump in without any planning, for the long-term, it doesnt work very well. Following a build guide is always good for new and even experienced players as very few are capable of building viable end-game builds (that can explore the entire atlas and get all the way to and defeat Shaper). And with SSF we have the added complexity of not being able to trade to acquire key unique items that make all the difference in a build.

    Realm Ender: Another one I havent used yet. But +3 staff with up to 50% increased ele damage at level 40 sohould be good, right? RIGHT? Also please someone try it out with ele hit. Like, seriously. +4 levels, flat ele, increased ele. I can sense ele hit meta coming.

    Gloves: +1 gems, curse on hit (Empires Grip, Verusos Battering Rams, Atziris Acuity, Maligaros Virtuosity, Asenaths Gentle touch, Voidbringer, Wyrmsign, Repentance, Shapers Touch, Facebreaker, Snakebite, Shadows and Dust).

    Rolling Strongboxesis only important for a few: Alchemy (+6 or more items), Diviners (quantity) and Cartographers (In 66-70 maps do + chest level to get higher maps. in 71+ alch is recommended). While I used to roll all the other boxes, I dont anymore because it takes time and they are so numerous I find the mods rarely help. The only exception could be where youre in a L80 map and want to get L83 items to drop; you can then roll your strongbox to be +3 or higher on the item level. But getting a rogue exile, unique, magic monsters, and other mods can often be beneficial ultimately its up to you.

    Path of Exile 3.3 Incursion Best Starting Builds

    I recommend leveling using 2h melee weapons because they do more damage. Also avoid taking weapon type specific skill nodes in the tree. Preferably maces and axes because earthquake. But until level 28 when you get EQ you can use swords with sweep/cleave/whatever.

    Blackgleam-The Signal Fire: Insane for elemental bow builds, regular ones too. Might not be the best choice with Storm cloud.

    While theLabyrinthis critical for ascendancy points, when playing SSF it can be a source of items, currency and leveling. Depending on how lab friendly your build is, running the Merciless lab can be beneficial up to 75 and even higher, especially if you are attempting to roll specific enchantments on your gear. The reality is less than 1% of all player ever run the Uber lab, so while I can say Uber Lab is one of the best item and currency makers in the game (especially if you want exalts) the simple fact is most SSF players will never set foot in it.

    Linking and Socketingitems is critical for end-game. If you get your master high enough, it costs 1500 fusings to 6L an item. The statistical chance of getting a 6L is roughly 0.05% (estimated) or 970 orbs of fusing on average. Remember to always make sure an item you are linking or socketing is at 20% quality! Another factor is color combination. The best tool you can use to determine if you should just spam Chromatics is theVorici Chromatic Calculator.

    A top notchLoot Filteris also very important. My personal preference isNeverSinks.

    Abberaths Horn: I feel that this is better than lifesprig for fire spell builds. Even more so when you equip a tabula/move your main skill from lifesprig to somewhere else.

    Wurms Molt: Has some life/mana leech, some int, str, life and cold res. IMO pretty interchangeable with meginords.

    Blackheart: For attack builds, use from the get-go.

    Axiom Perpetuum: Yes. Get 2 of those. Equip at level 10 for GG. At one point though some other uniques/good rares will overcome it in terms of damage output, youll just have to experiment yourself.

    Boots: +1 gems, +1 frenzy charge (Atziris Step, Bones of Ullr, Skyforth, Darkray Vectors, The Blood Dance, Deaths Door, Voidwalker).

    builds (which dont require a specific unique to function, such as Ngamahus) are also quite viable, but theres a few that shine, also allowing for item interchangeability with 1 and 2.

    Only slam items with no more than 4 mods. You can block an undesireable mod by crafting a cheap master mod on the item, just make sure the mod youre aiming for is attainable. Another technique is to use other master mods such as cannot roll caster mods (which can be useful for rolling daggers with a focus on crit/damage).

    Remember to explore!SSF is not about power leveling, its about building. You want to find every master and vaal side area you can!

    is another favorite that is also very high DPS (especially for single target) and can also be very tanky.

    The Ignomon: GG for any attack builds.

    Maligaros Virtuosity: Can be equipped at level 21 and are insane for leveling any crit build.

    Quivers: Adds an additional arrow (Drillneck, Rearguard, Signal Fire).

    Here is anexcellent guide onEfficient Currency Farming, which is very important for those wanting to take SSF to end-game.

    There are numerousUnique items that are recommended for leveling. Once again,Noneskiifrom Reddit deserves credit for another fantastic post which served as the foundation for the below list.

    is also good for SSF, and offers a completely different style of play from the above builds.

    PoE is a very difficult and complex game. SSF is not easy, especially for those that want to work through the end-game, run Uber bosses and kill the Shaper. It takes time, patience, planning and often multiple characters over a period of weeks or even months in SSF to achieve what one could in a few days or week through trading. But its fulfilling. Ive played PoE with trading since day one, but recently, I decided to create a new account and play SSF. It changed a lot for me, but ultimately was very rewarding as I worked my way through the Atlas with multiple characters and builds.

    Araku Tiki: Nice life and fire resistance.

    Amulets: +1 curse, +1 frenzy, movement speed, +1 max res (Eye of Chayula, Halcyon, Ngamahu Tiki, Anvil, Bloodgrip, Eye of innocence; the rest are too expensive or worthless).

    Its easy to remember how many environmental objects are in the game. Make sure youturn over every stoneand if you have a quick-executing area attack, make sure youbreak groups of barrels(or other destructibles). Ive had exalts and uniques drop this way!

    Path of Exile Solo Self Found (SSF) Guide

    Wall of Brambles: If at level 30 you feel like you dont need tabula yet, this thing enables half-asleep leveling mode.

    There are 10 builds I personally recommend a player considers when starting to play SSF. Each of these builds works very well without any uniques, have excellent scaling based on progression, and should be able to carry the player to T10 maps and beyond. I have played each of these builds except the trapper build, which was referred to me by another veteran PoE player. Note I have linked the particular build I recommend for each one below, but there are variations available on thePath of Exile Build Browser.

    Path of Exile 3.2 Bestiary Best Builds

    Its also important to remember keyskill gems that are only available as reward/vendor to certain classes, such as Poison or Blood Magic. For these gems, I highly recommend purchasing them from the vendor (at level 1) and storing them in your stash for future use. If you want to do a reference check to prepare for a build that requires gems not offered through that particular classes quest rewards, do a search on thePoE Wiki Quest Rewards pageto see which class gets it and when.

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    League start support: (any item which is currently not for sale at the time the filter is generated will be marked as a tier 2 div card, unique or currency depending on the item.) In a league start situation this will ensure all items will be shown even if they are currently not for sale. Remember to update your filter often in a new league to have the most effective filter as the economy changes.

    Price blanketing has been turned off for all items except for a few remaining Divination Cards that have not appeared on Poe.Ninja yet.

    Due to the lack of data at the very beginning of a league, we implement a blanketing rule that will ensure you get all of our normally price regulated items always shown as their Tier 2 Style up until the point that we feel there is enough data to be able to switch back on the price based filtering. This is to ensure no one misses out on those important drops early on!

    Thats all for now Exiles, stay tuned we have some big plans over the coming months!

    Loot filter preferences will persist throughout leagues and are intended to ensure you never need to restyle another loot filter outside of new game additions ever again. To generate your filter head to the filter section of the site, select your chosen preference set from the drop down menu, choose a league and generate away.

    This site is fan-made and not affiliated with Grinding Gear Games in any way.

    You can now create a PoE Wizard Account allowing us to offer you even more cool features now and in the future.

    The Lootfilter generator has been updated to include Incursion items and new Incursion loot filter rules.

    Loot filters have been updated with the following features.

    Styling: You can now style the base filter based on your personal preferences choosing what color, sound and size you want associated with each drop.

    While this update may seem fairly superficial we have been implementing a lot of groundwork so we can truly build a fantastic site for the PoE Community. One of our primary goals was to set up a safe and isolated test environment to experiment in and try out some more extreme designs and features. In addition to setting up our test site we also now have a built in article creation arm of our site which I am writing this very article in! Both these features will be pivotal to future developments and updates.

    Due to this update the filter will not work until after the Incursion patch.

    Downsizing and focusing our efforts will allow us to do some very cool things with the features we have retained in the future. While the database is smaller it will offer more insights and tools further down the line and there is definitely the possibility we revisit a complete database again in the future.

    After creating an account and visiting your profile page you will now be able to create loot filter presets. These presets will save your personal styles and settings allowing you to generate on the fly filters far easier without having to re-input all your info.

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    No, Im troubled by the fact that the games flow is ruined by continuous trips back to town to offload loot and a playerbase that continually defends this screwball decision because I just dont get it.

    Caveat: My information is a bit dated. Also, Im a much bigger fan of D3: RoS than PoE.

    D3 and PoE are so different that its astonishing that they have a recent common ancestor (D2:LOD). Ive enjoyed both (since D3s big item change it was horrid before that), but PoE gives that intense D2-style hit of theorycrafting, planning, powerful build-changing uniques, drops that make you shriek and so on, whereas D3 has the MWAHAHAHAHAHAA I WILL DESTROY YOU ALL factor going for it, as you blast through giantic packs of bastards in a terrifying face-melting way, like some kind of unstoppable god of destruction. and ultra-tailored difficulty so you can get that perfect satisfying difficulty bite.

    I thought the Path of Exile story, world building, and presentation were absolutely first class. I stop and listen/read everything available, which is something for such a fast paced game. Certainly Diablo didnt impress me with that aspect, and neither did T2 (though I liked the humor better there).

    10/07/2015 at 20:41Stinkfinger75says:

    Its still a disruption of gameplay, and I will take offense, because youre implying that I dont know what Im talking about and that these games arent for me. In fact, almost every other major entry in the genrehasbeen for me. Ive played all the Diablos and enjoyed them, all the Dungeon Sieges, even Space Siege, both Torchlights, Titan Quest, Grim Dawn, Divine Divinity you get the idea.

    Dont forget the Van Helsing trilogy. Theyre surprisingly decent ARPG, despite the cheesy name.

    Hi RPSlers, semi-experienced player here if you wanna group up in Path of Exile, my IGN is Grandma_Frost. Would be happy to play with experienced folk as well as beginners!

    * = Most ARPGs are a matter of Pick up everything, sell everything or Pick up almost nothing because very few items have any value, or something close to that, whereas PoE occupies a bit of a middle ground, probably closer to D2:LOD than any other game.

    It looks like a Klegg wrote the headline here. Good to see them finding work.

    I didnt get any condescending from his tone other than the the game may not be for you remark, but Im taking that as it is. Its an integral part of the system of the game so if its not for you then its just not for you. This coming from someone whos never played PoE and has like 2k hrs in Diablo 3. I think you are reading too far into his comments.

    Also, I think PoE does storytelling and art style quite a bit better than D3 ever did. Act 3 managed to set a tone with its art and music that was downright [i]creepy[/i] at times, which is the last thing I expect from an ARPG. I dearly hope Act 4 delivers.

    But its stubborn refusal to modernise and offer even a small degree of the inventory flexibility of its contemporaries dooms it for me. Post-Dungeon Siege donkey, I thought wed seen the end of insultingly bad inventory management.

    Theres a good PoE beginners guide here, and its worth reading the (very short) section on looting:link to

    Great game from great people. Go try it. Its free.

    Better than an AH-based economy, anyway, thats for sure.

    1a) Optional exception: If you dont have a lot of armour/weapon improvement currency (I forget the name whetstone for weapons, I think), then do pick up white items with 10% or greater quality. Keep a pane in your stash for these, and whenever you have a total of 40% of a type (weapon or armour) sell them to a vendor and youll get a useful currency item.

    3) Pick up any item with linked red-green-blue sockets these sell for good currency.

    Also, you dont really need to return to town to offload loot. Identify it and throw it on the ground if you arent going to use it or sell it to another player. Selling to the vendors actually provides very little currency and by doing so GGG has de-incentivized returning to town to offload loot.

    From the headline I take it Alice didnt go for the vegan option

    D3 does do a nice thing, though, where you cant really trade (only drop items for people and hope vaguely they might drop something for you), but it has a really high unique drop rate and drops uniques specific to your class more often (the latter obvs. impossible in PoE because of how things work).

    Its an ARPG for those that enjoy tinkering and planning out a characters growth, and taking a skill and making it into a huge shotgun. The gameplay itself is kind of clunky. Then again, Path of Exile is free to try, with no purchase necessary unless you want a cosmetic-changing effect for your character (or a pet, or whatever). Path of Exile may not have clicked with me, but I cant argue that it isnt a hell of a game for being free-to-play!

    Im not quite sure what you mean by crippled. The portal and inventory system are the same except that theyve added loot filters which are extremely useful and totally customizable and item levels can be seen at a glance rather than typing /itemlevel.

    I will inevitably go after guides and builds and player commentary on different builds, pros and cons, ideal equipments, cost/benefit, speed vs fun ratio in the end Ill have 40 tabs in my browser, my character will likely be rooted to one spot in game at level 5 for hours on end while I alt-tab and frown at my indecisiveness, and in the end Ill just give up on choosing any one build and stop playing. (Alternatively, I might end up *finally* picking a build to follow, and then eventually forget about it or which one I was following and also end up giving up.)

    As long as you have a ping below 100 or so and a steady connection, you will have no desync at all. The game will automatically (unless you set it otherwise) put you in the new lockstep mode. This makes it so that you are always 1 to 1 with the server. There is no prediction. Higher pings will start causing a delay in your inputs. If you had a 200 ping, you would have a noticeable lag between when you click somewhere and when your player moves. They added a whole bunch of new server locations so getting a low ping is easier than ever. I play with a 20-40 ping and it feels 1 to 1 with no input lag.

    (Its amazing how much Ive lasted playing TF2. But then again, none of the trading there actually relates to gameplay specifically, so I never felt like I *had* to get into trading its wildly different in that regard, even if we disconsider the different game genres.)

    You do know that desync has been fixed as of today, right?

    I can help you with this! I used to have the same issues, but the good news is, you can fix it.

    Your tones just a little too condescending for my liking, and Ive encountered it throughout the PoE community.

    I had a crack at Path of Exile years ago, but found the sprawling skill tree off-putting rather than enticing. I felt more like I was presented with a large number of opportunities to waste skill points than the freedom to create the hero I wanted. Thats a hazy memory, mind, from a grumpier time long ago. Tell me, whats it really like?

    (Torchlight II, I miss you, babe. I think its time for a reinstall)

    Either way, the game is very beatable in the first playthrough. Its new-game plus that really pushes your character builds.

    Of course I know I most times dont *need* to do that, but often if you want to enjoy endgame content, you probably will indeed need it. (Or, if youre like me, you have a group of friends that gets fixated on stats and builds and percentuals and trades, while you just want to go and sell loot to an NPC and have the simplest of funs at the risk of being a weight to the party.)

    So, anyway, heres a simple approach that will prevent you going back to town every 5 minutes:

    Be pilots, pirates and space truckers

    The final, mustache-twirling boss of the game (in the expansion I stopped playing at) mutates into this weird, absurd monster thing for no apparent reason. Ruling the world is apparently much easier when youre a twisted, praying-mantis, lobster-thing.

    2) Play it like a choose your own adventure book just go one node at a time (maybe looking ahead a little), making sure you pick ones that make sense. If youve decided to fight in melee, just pick ones that help with that, for example it doesnt hugely matter if you, say, pick the line of the tree that mostly gives weapon damage over the one that mostly gives attack speed (unless youre building at some super-pro level, but, most of us arent).

    My problem is figuring out making a goal and how to get there. Ive seen some decent builds out there but what are good websites where you can read up on a collection of builds and maybe compare them?

    PoEs evil is pretty much the Evil Which Men Do-type evil (where greed, desperation, imperialism, etc. are key drivers of evil) combined with existential horror (more of a Steven King than HP Lovecraft kind, but thats no bad thing). Piles of bodies, lots of blood, and so on its caused by the supernatural and some by people.

    PoE continues to be a better game than Diablo 3 to this day, and this makes me excited to play it again. The biggest issue with it has always been desync, but thats a small price to pay for a near-flawless aRPG gameplay experience with no price tag of its own. The skill tree is a lot of fun to theorycraft with, but my one recommendation is to have your build planned out before beginning a character. If you try to simply place skill points as you go, youll probably end up creating a character who isnt good at much of anything.

    And I would have gotten away with it to if it wasnt for you meddling Nephalim!

    D3 was very Scooby Doo in its approach to the villains.

    I am always ultimately terrible with games that make me feel like I *need* to put together a decent, smart, well put together build.

    12/07/2015 at 15:17Minglefinglersays:

    The Awakening introduces Act IV of the story, complete with new areas, bosses, skills, and so much loot to beat out of monsters. Also, more stuff. Checkthe Awakening subsitefor more. It is nice that itstouching up the game in generala lot too, rebalancing quest rewards, improving network syncing, and making lots of small quality of life UI improvements.

    The skill tree is not afraid to let you screw up, but there are a few things Ive found make this not a problem.

    Thats pretty much it. If you roughly follow this algorithm, youll end up rarely going back to town, and making a lot more currency/hour AND having way more fun than if you pick up all the white or all the blue items. Its also worth organising your stash so you can dump stuff into it quickly and easily when you are back in town.

    I have to agree with Mungrul with this. Iv been playing it for the first time in ages and the inventory and the constant need to go back the town every 5 mins to dump your load is so tedious and I cant take it anymore. Double the side of your inventory or make stuff smaller or something.

    The skill web is a great idea in theory. In practice I hate it because they keep feeling the need to modify it so much that they reset your skill point allocation over and over. I feel like Im starting over every time I come back to the game, and thats not fun.

    To me, the portal and inventory system feel as if they were designed with monetisation in mind, but that monetisation never materialised. Both are artificially constrained, to great detriment. Compared to other games in the genre, its ridiculously stingy, and forces you out of playing the actual game and playing the loot tetris metagame instead.

    The skill-tree is hilariously daunting if you dont know how to approach it I often show it to non-gamers or very casual gamers to get them to laugh, because its like a parody of a skill tree or of what they think games are like.

    Also with this patch the drop rate for uniques was improved, as was how common linked sockets are, aaaaaaand with item filters its easier to see what has value, so its all a little less painful.

    Ive recently gotten back into D3 which tried hard to present itself as evil. It always seemed to me closer to Disneys version of evil. PoE looks like a game that gets evil right, but what kind of evil is it? It looks a bit Satanic from screens Ive seen.

    D1 is full on Satanic-type evil. D2 is more like nutso Satanic apocalypse-type evil with a side of Human Evil. D3 is, as you say, Disney Evil quite malignant Disney, but Disney nonetheless. Its got a sense of style but its not very scary.

    2) Dont pick up blues unless you think they will may be DIRECTLY and IMMEDIATELY useful to you, or you are going back to town anyway and have empty inventory space.

    Sounds like the new loot filters might be useful for you. You do have inventory issues to begin with, but once you start to realise what items are valuable, and what items you can ignore, your trips to town become less frequent.

    5) Pick up all yellow items. If they seem likely to be useful, ID them then either sell them or keep them.

    (D3 also has a weird small-c conservative/right-wing deal where it vaguely implies its wrong for commoners to revolt against nobles, in Act 5 whereas PoE is on the side of the slaves and the oppressed and against the dominators, overlords and warmongers)

    I havent played the game in a while, but when i did I never had to go to town every 5 minutes. The game isnt designed around collecting all the crap you can carry. Just take the loot that is useful or valuable, let the rest be. You wont get much for vendoring the trash anyway.

    Is it actually? I always seemed to get the desync constantly when I played. Was like playing with 500 ping all the time definitely not a price worth paying.

    Thats what drove me away from the game.

    The gameplay hasnt been clunky for well over a year. So pretty outdated indeed.

    PoE is more King or Lovecraft-type evil than Disney. The piles of bodies and rivers of blood alone

    The truth about the sprawling skilltree is that its not as complicated as it looks. You basically have to decide on which bigger, gamechanging nodes to get, which are mostly located at the outer edge of the tree. You then fill the paths there with minor stuff you need. Approaching it on a level by level basis without a goal is a big mistake.

    I can say that I was playing from the U.K with someone on the U.S last night for about 6 hours (only 8 or so hours after launch of new expansion) with no network problems at all and a really smooth ping.

    D3 has its fun moments and is a very different and perhaps more accessible game than PoE, but PoE is definitely the game that lives in my heart, that I keep coming back to.

    Its not Disney evil, though which what D3 is, and what was being asked about.

    This bloody patch cant download fast enough though, cmon PoE!

    PoE has the worst, most disruptive inventory system of any of those games Ive played, and takes the focus away from what matters more than any of them. Yes, Im even including Diablo 1 here.

    The second is that, like mentioned, the skill trees biggest decisions are easily identifiablethe Keystone nodes that will define how your character plays. Pick one, head to it while picking up skills that look worthwhile along the way, and it should work out more or less okay.

    If youre troubled by the fact that you have to actually consider inventory management in an aRPG then youre probably playing the wrong game

    I loved the skill system and moment-to-moment combat; the graphics are great and the gameplay can be smooth.

    The first is that the game is more or less built on the idea of building new characters and testing out builds, and to me the first playthrough is great for freestyling your build; with later characters being for serious attempts at new-game + stuff.

    The game is built from the ground up for Hardcore play. Youre not supposed to be sticking to a single character, and if you are its because youre building it perfectly. But a large portion of the game is theorycrafting, that focus leads to builds that can break the game, while also highlighting weaknesses in others that need to be lifted up. Theres more emergent gameplay here than in any ARPG since Diablo 2, but all the while theyre intending to balance all that information they get from the playerbase. That means regular alterations to the skill tree. If you dont enjoy starting over, or having to reallocate skill points every once in a while, this most definitely is not a game for you.

    I havent played the game in a while, but when i did I never had to go to town every 5 minutes. The game isnt designed around collecting all the crap you can carry. Just take the loot that is useful or valuable, let the rest be. You wont get much for vendoring the trash anyway.

    You dont actually have to do that, you just have to take a triage approach to the inventory.

    This item dependency also can lead to what to me is the biggest caveat in PoE; the trade system is hard. You actually have to either post in forums and have potential buyers message and barter with you face-to-face, ormuch worsespam offers in trade chats (*shudder*).

    For people who have the time and energy to get into the trading aspect of it, it can be great, I suppose. For me its just disheartening.

    One of my favorite additions with this update is the Divination Card system. Its basically a way to farm for specific gear without bartering. Each card drops in a specific zone and when you have a full stack of a given card, you can turn it in for the specified item(s). The trade-ins range from random batches of low level currency all the way up to powerful endgame Uniques. It means that people who hate trade can now have the best loot just by farming instead of spamming chat. The best part is that the cards are being created by paying community members and theres a ton of them still on the way.

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    I appreciate you, PoE; but ultimately we dont fit well together.

    Otherwise, you work with what you got, just like we did 99% of the time in Diablo 2. In all my hundreds of thousands of hours on PoE, Ive only ever traded twice, I note.

    Classes were never meant to feel different. The game is about min-maxing and thats why choosing your starting class is somewhat important. Truly, the game is meant for a Hardcore experience and has been balanced around HC since it started. If you arent min-maxing in Hardcore, you will die and you will learn your lesson.

    1) Only pick up white items until you have a decent stack of identify scrolls, or if you intend to craft with them. Dont ever pick up white items that are bigger than 22 or 13 unless you intend to craft with them (i.e. they have linked sockets etc.).

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    Are the inventory and town portal systems in PoE still ridiculously crippled?

    Crafting materials (some exceedingly-rare) are also used as currency. The system requires a bit of a learning curve to understand what item is worth what crafting material (top end items are typically bought with Exalts, unless a new, higher-level crafting item has been added in my absence).

    I didnt play Diablo 3 before PoE, yet by the time I was done with PoE, I was glad to give Blizzard money and buy it.

    I think D3 is the better game but I do hope Path of Exile (and Grim Dawn) do well. Its a genre that has room for more games.

    Its also kind of astonishing that PoE costs 0, and really, Ive felt so guilty for that Ive spent like 20 quid on it so far and will probably spend more, whereas D3 + ROS (which you need) is still about 50. 50 is a HELL of a barrier to try to get friends/family over, and whats perverse is, D3 is really only fun at all with friends/people you know (it gets old fast solo, unlike PoE).

    Unfortunately, inventory tetris is one of Grinding Gear Games intentional design decisions so if thats not your cup of tea youre out of luck. Just like the trading aspect and constantly changing metagame arent my cup of tea, theyre in fact stopping PoE from being the absolutely best game for me ever.

    Diablo III was pretty disappointing when it arrived, but Blizzard were allowed plenty of time to fix it up into its current pleasant state because many clickfans found themselves distracted byPath of Exileofficial site] anyway. Grinding Gear Games have continued to improve their free-to-play action-RPG all the while too, of course. Today (this very minute, if all goes to plan) they launch The Awakening, which they call the biggest and most far-reaching expansion of the game to date. Sez you, sunshine.

    I never said you just dont get it so dont be hostile. I said that if it doesnt interest you maybe you are meant for aRPGs that use this mechanic. D2 is the father of the aRPG and a massive inspiration for PoE. The developer wanted to create a game that used inventory management. Its as simple as that.

    All the points aside, PoE is a fantastic game, expansion makes it better.

    By Alice OConnor on July 10th, 2015 at 8:00 pm

    Since others were mentioning Diablo 3: I think the upcoming addition of Kanais Cube in Diablo 3 will add a spark that was missing from that game.

    While Ive been playing, Diablo 3 has gone from strength to strength. And unlike PoE, it has constantly improved its inventory and crafting system so you can spend more time killing beasts than playing inventory Tetris.

    The few sites that have attempted to catalogue PoE builds have all failed at keeping things up to date. The best place to look at builds are the official forums, and the subreddit is also fairly good if youve got questions.

    1) As golem09 says, you can be very goal-oriented look around for the bigger nodes, see what they do, see which ones you might want, and find a path to them that seems good.

    PoE will become perfect once they add some ingame trading component and allow players to adjust graphic levels.

    Just mentioning it, because it doesnt sound like you know judging on what you wrote:

    Oh, that trading system. Its so tiresome. I hate having to barter with players for things I hate it so much. 🙁 And having to worry about whether or not I might be getting scammed, trying to find pricing guides, and trying to keep up with the eternal changing tides of a player-driven economy

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    You can also get a loot filter now which will basically force you to do this.

    No, Path of Exile has a better overall vibe and atmosphere, but the meat of the game and certain scenarios are just as cartoonishly-evil as anything in Diablo 3. It starts out well, but you gradually descend into crazier-and-crazier scenarios. In a certain level, for example, youre presented with an apocalyptic-level of corpses and oceans of blood, with thousands upon thousands of body horror subjects charging you to eat you alive or whatever. It makes zero sense in the context of the games atmosphere.

    The third important fact is that that sprawling skill tree is only *passive* benefits. To me the most determining factor of your avatars strength is your items, including the skill gem items that actually give you your attacks.

    Making the items smaller wouldnt really solve anything, if you stuff your inventory as fast as possible it merely delays the problem slightly. But if you just think of the loot a bit differently not I HAVE TO PICK UP EVERYTHING BECAUSE THEORETICALLY HAS VALUE!!!!, but rather Whats a good use of my time/space?, then all will become clear.

    Ive never managed to get into POE which is odd given the amount of hours Ive sunk into other ARPGs over the years, Ill probably give it another go later today. Im playing Victor Vran the the minute and enjoying it but I suspect that the increasing amount of damage enemies can soak up might start to annoy me.

    Trading isnt really required, though, unless you want highly-specific uniques for a highly-specific build.

    There are two good ways to approach it though:

    Couldnt agree more. Also, for those who dont know, you can check the skill-tree atlink to and completely plan out how youre going to allocate your points (something Ive always done for PoE).

    My biggest grip about Path of Exiles has been the terrible terrible Desync. Could not stand it and stopped playing until it was fixed.

    Loot filters are a new addition that highlights decent drops, and will eventually hide worthless drops.

    You have to approach looting differently in PoE to most other ARPGs*, and take what basically amounts to a triage-type approach. Otherwise, its absolutely as you say youre going back to town every five minutes, and thats frustrating, inefficient, and unnecessary.

    The classes dont feel particularly different, with all builds aiming to take a skill and supercharge that skill with AoE effects and multiple attacks a second. You use the same skill for the entirety of your characters life. Once you reach the final boss of a particular difficulty, you start over at the beginning in a higher difficulty, complete with items that use recycled artwork (items with level 1 artwork being more powerful than your level-whatever gear, which to me was disappointing).

    The character tree isnt as complicated as it looks, and the upper difficulty levels severely punish creativity. The sky isnt the limit, despite the skill tree promising otherwise: you cant, for example, take a Witch and make her into a melee machine and hope to make it into the highest difficulty and be effective.

    Either way, dont get freaked out. Even a messed up build will get you through the game on normal difficulty, and by the time you finish that (especially with the new act!) youll want to try a different character and will have a much better idea of what to do with the skill tree next time.

    Ive made a quick list above that will drastically improve things for you and deal with 99.9% of loot situations.

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    I did not know that, no. Great to hear.

    Theres a LOT to like about PoE.

    Good news, it has been fixed (as long as you have a decent connection with few interruptions). If you are unable to run the new Lockstep mode, the other mode has had improvements too it as well.

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    Fire / Cold / Lightning / Chaos resistances elemental resistances reduce damage taken when you are attacked with elemental damage. A natural cap is 75% of each resistance but it can be lifted by equipped items, auras, elemental flasks or certain nodes on the passive skill tree. When you are approaching end-game (at least LVL 60-65), make sure you have all resistances except chaos capped at 75% because with uncapped resistances you will die often. If you want, you can invest in Chaos resistance, but from my experience, even having -60% Chaos resistance is not that deadly.

    Skill gems are divided into two types active skill gemsandsupport gems.Active skill gems grant the player active skill such as spell, trap, mine, aura, curse or warcry. Skill gems have several tags associated with them that many beginners overlook, below I have added a picture with 3 different active skills and their tags. When active skill gems are linked with support gems, it increases mana cost of the active skill.

    Curses some monsters or bosses use curses that reduce your damage, resistances, make you take increased damage etc. Best way to counter curses is to have a flask with curse removal affix on it. Players can also use curses, there are tons of builds for which curses is the cornerstone around which the build is made.

    3.) Boss rooms for Shaper, Atziri, Pale Court, etc.

    Chance to dodge attacks/spell damage this stat shows your chance to dodge attack or spell. When you dodge damage, you completely avoid it. It is completely different stat from evasion and they can both used together very effectively.

    Frenzy charges:4% increased attack and cast speed per frenzy charge and 4% more damage per frenzy charge.

    At the beginning of your journey, every character you create will have two basic resources life and mana. These two are pretty straightforward life represents how much damage you can take before you die and mana is used for casting spells and using auras. You scale the amount of life on mana using items with such mods as (+ x to maximum life / +x to maximum mana or %increased maximum life/mana etc) and using passive skill tree mentioned earlier. There is another option Energy shield.

    When you register and join the game, upon creation of your character you are given a choice of what league you want to play in. Currently, there are 2 permanent leagues Standard (Softcore version) and Hardcore. Each permanent league also has solo self-found option (In solo self-found mode you cannot interact with other players that means you wont be able to play in a party together or trade).

    And below you can see an item with 3 sockets where 2 of them are linked together active skill gem isnotsupported by support gem because they are not linked together.

    Let me note, that main color of the sockets on items is biased towards its base type and attribute requirement to equip the item armour items (associated with strength requirements) will most likely roll red sockets, evasion items (associated with dexterity requirements) green sockets and energy shield items (associated with intelligence requirements) blue sockets.

    Each charge type gives a different bonus for you:

    If you are new to the game and dont want to mess up your first build (which will probably still happen), follow some build guide from our website. Another option is to just mess around yourself and see how things work but sometimes it can get frustrating if you cannot kill monsters/progress further, so be careful with it.

    Shock(associated with lightning damage) when affected by shock, the target takes increased damage from all sources.

    Each character class starts with different attributes which I listed in a table previously. Attributes are useful not only for meeting requirements but they also provide different bonuses:

    Sockets the number of sockets an item can have is determined by its item level for example, item with an item level of 15 cannot have more than 3 sockets. This, however, can be overridden by crafting the item using Voricis crafting bench but usually is not required. I would also like to note that not all items can have the same amount of sockets even with item level higher than 50 only body armors and 2-handed weapons can have 6 sockets, gloves, helmets, and boots can have maximum of 4 sockets, 1-handed weapons and shields can only have maximum of 3 sockets, rings can have 1 socket.

    2.) Vaal Side areas (one instance, once you clear it from monsters, you cannot generate new one)

    Accuracy accuracy is a stat that determines your chance to hit monsters using attack based skills.

    In each of the acts you have to complete mandatory quests to progress; there are also optional side-quests that give you great rewards (skill points) but they are considered mandatory for basically every character.

    A little more about defenses Armour will make you take reduced physical damage from hits, Evasion will give you chance to avoid damage completely and Energy shield will give you more effective hp (3000hp + 3000 Energy shield gives you 6000 effective hp).

    There are 3 core attributes in Path of Exile Strength, Intelligence, and Dexterity. Equipment such as weapons and armors/skill gems have certain attribute requirements to be used if skill gem requires 100 intelligence to be used, you will have to have at least 100 intelligence to use that skill gem.

    To get access to Izaros Labyrinth, you have to completetrials of ascendancy.

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    You can also check out our article with some of the most popular or useful vendor recipesHERE.

    When leveling your character, sometimes it might be challenging to meet the requirements for certain gems there is an easy solution to that: buy jewelry with attributes from a vendor. There are amulets that give you a good boost to attributes Lapis amulet for intelligence, Amber amulet for strength and Jade amulet for dexterity and there are also hybrid amulets that give 2 of the attributes but in a bit lower numbers. I almost always use them while leveling to be able to use skills that I want and recommend that you do too if you need some attributes. Even in late game, the best way to meet attribute requirements for most builds is using jewelry, so keep that in mind if youre ever lacking them.

    Support gems effect on active skill gem

    Critical strike chance this stat shows how likely the spell or attack is to critically strike.

    Frenzycharges associated with dexterity.

    One more thing that sets Path of Exile apart from most ARPGs is itsenormous skill nsisting of more than 1000 nodes, it looks extremely complex if you are looking at it the first time, but dont worry building your character using skill tree is not as hard as it looks.

    Some of the most popular buffs in this games are:

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    Path of Exile wiki page holds all the discovered vendor recipes in the game check them outHERE.

    After the challenge leagues end, they merge with standard and hardcore leagues meaning all your characters and items from challenge league go to their respective permanent league (standard for softcore versions and hardcore).

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    Magic or rare items have affixes (prefixes and suffixes) that are divided into tiers for example, to get

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    Auras they can boost your and your allies offense and defense (for example added armour, attack speed, added elemental damage etc).

    Below you can see some skill gem combinations and their effects.

    Instead of 1 projectile, Spectral throw will now have 5 projectiles.

    Evasion (associated with dexterity)is another way to avoid damage it is mostly used by ranged characters that do not expect being hit a lot. Combined with Acrobatics keystone in the Passive skill tree, evasion gives you pretty high chance to avoid taking any damage at all, but its one of the most unreliable defensive mechanics (because few unlucky hits can take you out instantly) thats why its not as popular in hardcore.

    As I mentioned before, all classes share this tree but each character class starts from the different area of it. Upon leveling up, you receive 1 passive skill point that you can allocate within the skill tree.

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    The same principle applies to all weapons, and to see which color sockets you will roll most of the time, you just have to check attribute requirements on the weapon.

    1.) Endgame maps (one instance with 6 portals to it is created)

    Your Caustic Arrow projectiles will be slower but will deal much more damage.

    Molten Strike will hit 2 additional times after initial hit.

    Something to add if we are talking about instances is that for some areas instances cannot be generated repeatedly. Some examples:

    These tags are pretty much essential pointers for everyone, even the most experienced players they basically tell us what kind of skill this is and whichsupport gemsare going to work with said skill.

    Bleed(associated with physical damage) this is pretty nasty ailment that some monsters can inflict on you. Bleed makes you take physical damage over time. While you are under effects of bleed, you take considerably more damage while moving and a lot of characters die that way. Best way to deal with bleed for most builds is flask that removes bleed in combination with having the presence of mind to stand still while the debuff is on you (if the flask is empty).

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    You can force-create as many instances of the area as you want it is useful if you want to repeatedly run the same zone for leveling or divination card drop purposes because creating new instance means having it populated with monsters again. To create a new instance, hover over the entrance, hold CTRL key and left click on it. Doing so will bring up instance creation menu where you should choose NEW option. Below I have attached an image of the menu. Just a note: you can also create a new instance of the zone by CTRL-clicking on the waypoint which is associated with a given zone.

    Estimated physical damage reduction associated with armour, this stat tells you how much physical damage you are mitigating. The stat can be boosted by certain unique items, Basalt and Granite flasks, Endurance charges and few other options.

    While talking about life, I will also give a little explanation about flasks in this game. There are two big categories of flasks recovery flasks and utility flasks. The first ones provide you with the ability to regain health and mana (or both when using hybrid life+mana flask) and utility flasks give you various other buffs such as movement speed, resistances, damage, defense and so on. The way flasks work in this game is that they have charges which are consumed when you use flask. They regain charges when you are killing monsters so you dont have to buy flasks like in other games (Diablo 2 for example).

    Ignite(associated with fire damage) when affected by ignite, target burns and takes fire damage over time.

    Ailments are very similar to debuffs, but they are mostly associated with damage types physical, chaos, cold, lightning and fire. Each damage type can inflict one or several ailments.

    Each charge type provides different bonuses and by default, each character can have a maximum of 3 charges of each type. To increase the maximum amount of charges you can have, you can get certain nodes on the passive skill tree or equip certain unique items. Usually, its a good idea to incorporate some charges in your builds because the bonuses can give you a good boost in damage or survivability.

    Besides these permanent leagues, every 3 or 4 months, new challenge league is released. Challenge leagues usually run for 3 or 4 months and most Path of Exile players participate in these leagues because everyone starts from level 1 in a completely new economy. These leagues always introduce new game content and offer challenges that give cool rewards upon completing them. Each challenge league has softcore and hardcore version and also solo self-found versions.

    Freeze(associated with cold damage) when affected by freeze, the target cannot perform any actions. You should always have a way to counter freeze because it can be extremely dangerous. Unless you are wearing Dream Fragments unique item or other items that prevent you from being frozen, carrying a flask with freeze removal mod is the best option to counter this ailment.

    It also applies to weapons, for example, claws are intelligence and dexterity based, so they will most often roll green and blue sockets when colored with Chromatic Orbs. If a claw has 50 dexterity requirement and 70 intelligence requirement, blue sockets will be rolled more often.

    If you have allocated a skill point earlier and want to refund it, there is a currency for that Orb of Regret.Another way to reallocate skill points is to obtain respec points from quests (let me note that there is a finite amount of quests that can give you that).

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    Poison(associated with physical and chaos damage) this ailment makes you take chaos damage over time. Poison ailment is a stacking one, that means there can be more than 1 instance of poison on you. To counter it, take a flask with poison removal with you, but from my experience, this ailment isnt that dangerous to have a special flask for.

    In Path of Exile, you use skills by putting them in sockets of your equipment. There are 4 socket colors in Path of Exile Red- associated withStrength, Green associated withDexterity, Blue associated withIntelligence, and White. You can change the color of sockets on the item by using Chromatic Orb on it. Red, Green, and Blue are socket colors that you will encounter all the time but white sockets can be found on some unique and corrupted items.

    Flameblast will have less area of effect but considerably more damage.

    Blade Vortex spell cast will repeat an additional time.

    You will now place a totem that will cast Flameblast instead of casting skill yourself.

    Powercharges associated with intelligence,

    Since game launched for the public, there has been a huge increase in the amount of Path of Exile players, that also means a lot of beginners. If you havent played an ARPG before, Path of Exile is quite a challenge to start with, thats why we decided to put together Path of Exile beginner guide it will contain explanations of game mechanics, a little bit about classes, skills, endgame bosses and things that were introduced in the past with challenge leagues.

    Energy shield (associated with intelligence)is a defensive mechanism that was meta until 3.0. Characters that used Energy Shield as their form of defense relied on it as very high effective hp. Combine that with Granite Flask and Basalt Flask and you still have a good amount of armour with extremely high effective hp. On top of that lots of builds used Vaal Pact keystone in combination with life leech which made these characters able to facetank even the biggest hits and regain full hp in an extremely short amount of time.

    Each item in Path of Exile has an item level thats hidden from the eye until you press ALT  key while hovering over the item. Item level is not level requirement for using the item but rather games way to put items in tiers.

    Every 10 intelligence gives you+5 to maximum manaand2% increased maximum energy shield

    Attack and cast speed these stats show how quickly you repeat attacks or spell casts.

    Corrupting blood this one can kill you very quickly if you arent careful and do not have bleed removal flask with you. When you hit a monster with Corrupting blood mod, you get one stack of the debuff per hit and it stacks to a maximum of 20 charges.

    Buffs and debuffs are temporary effects on your character that can change its offensive or defensive statistics. You can differ buffs from debuffs by their border (buffs have green border while debuffs have red).

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    Below you can see a table with minimum item levels for the number of sockets on items:

    Currency in this game has interesting concept not only it serves as a medium of exchange but also as a tool for crafting. Every type of currency serves its own purpose, for example, Exalted Orb when used on a non-corrupted rare item with less than 6 mods, will add a random mod to that item, however, Orb of Annulment can be used to remove one random mod from a rare item.

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    Currently, there are 7 character classes to choose from Duelist, Ranger, Witch, Scion, Marauder, Templar and Shadow. In Path of Exile biggest difference between classes used to be their starting point on the skill tree, but after expansion Ascendancy classes were introduced. After completing Izaros Labyrinth, you will unlock ascendancy class for your character class which takes your build into more specific direction and gives it more power.

    Blind when you are affected by blind, your chance to hit is halved and light radius reduced to its minimum value.

    First one Flameblast. As you can see it has several tags Spell, AoE, Fire, Channelingthat tell us what kind of support gems would work with the skill. For example, we could link Flameblast with Faster Casting support or Spell Echo, that works with all active skill gems that have tagSpell,we could also link it to Increased Area of Effect Support or Concentrated Effect Support because ofAoEtag, and Fire Penetration Support because ofFiretag. If we tried linking Flameblast with Lesser Multiple Projectiles Support or Greater Multiple Projectiles Support, these support gems would not affect the skill because it doesnt have aProjectiletag, however, they would affect skills likeIce Spear,which hasProjectiletag.

    Every area in Path of Exile is instance based. When you enter an area, a new instance is created. It remains open as long as you are in it, in addition, it remains open for more or less 15 minutes after you have left it.

    One more important buff mechanic you should know about arecharges they are temporary stackable buffs that your character can generate in several ways. They are visually seen as small glowing orbs of different colors around your character or monsters.

    Vendor recipe system allows players to sell items with certain mods, properties or item combinations to vendors in every town for some sort of reward.

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    Endurancecharges associated with strength,

    Onslaught this buff gives you 20% increased attack speed, cast speed, and movement speed.

    Endurance charges:4% physical damage reduction per endurance charge and 4% to all elemental resistances per endurance charge,

    Damage per second this stat shows total combined damage for given skill taking into account all the different modifiers when calculating it. Be aware of the fact that for some builds or skills this stat is not shown correctly because of the way the given skill works one example would be poison builds that stack multiple instances of poison on the target and only the initial hit damage is shown on the tooltip.

    Critical strike multiplier this stat shows how much extra damage you will inflict on the target when you critically strike.

    Chill(associated with cold damage) when affected by chill, the target has reduced movement, attack, and cast speed.

    There are several kinds of skill points within the tree Regular passive skill points, Notable Passive skill points, and Keystone skill points. Notable passive skills differ from regular ones by being larger and having stronger effects, Keystone skill points, however, have a bigger impact they change the way your character is played. Usually, Keystone skill points have positive effect + drawback, for example, Point Bland keystone skill point makes your close range attacks deal much more damage and reduce damage for farther traveling projectiles. Another example would be Resolute Technique keystone your hits never miss but you cannot critically strike.

    Every 10 strength gives you+5 to maximum lifeand2% increased physical damage

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    When you open up your character panel, there are plenty of different stats; lets take a closer look at some of them.

    Every 10 dexterity gives you+20 to accuracy ratingand2% increased evasion rating

    One of the unique things that sets Path of Exile apart is its brilliantly designed skill system skills come in forms of gems that are socketed in the items. At the inception of the game, many skills were obtainable only through drops, however now you can buy practically all skill gems from NPCs with exception of few.

    There are more ways to avoid damage block(your character blocks incoming attack and does not take damage from it),dodge/spell dodge(allows you to dodge attacks and spells similarly to evasion) these are usually used as extra layers of defense on top of one of the previously mentioned defense mechanisms.

    %increased Physical Damage prefix on a weapon, it has to have at least item level of 83. All rare and magic items you can equip can have affixes, including flasks, jewelry, armour and weapons jewels are the only exception and their affixes are not affected by item level.

    There are also skill points that look like sockets when you allocate those, you unlock jewel slots. There are lots of different unique jewels you can use in your skill tree, some of which are mandatory for a few builds like Vaal Spark or Golemancer. Most of the time its worth unlocking jewel slots because you can buy/find great rare jewels that boost your damage or survival capabilities. Below you can see how jewel slot looks.

    When planning out the build and skills that you are going to use, most important thing is to look at Ascendancy classes because they have a bigger impact than just starting point on the skill tree. At first, check out a list ofactive skill gemsif you dont know what kind of skills the game has, pick some and check them out in the game and if you want, also check builds that revolve around the given skill gem in youtube. We have started adding builds to our website and plan on adding at least one build for each of the most popular skill gems take look at our builds here.

    Chance to block this stat tells us how likely we are going to block monster attacks by using shield, staff or dual wielding weapons. When you block the attack, you take no damage from the blocked hit. Certain unique items or nodes on passive skill tree makes your block chance apply to spells as well, therefore, enabling you to block not only attacks but spells as well. The cap for a chance to block attacks and spells is 75%. One more thing you should keep in mind when you block the attack, the game calculates whether or not the attack you blocked would have stunned you, if it would have, blocking animation is played and you are stunned for a moment. Stats like faster stun and block recovery and increased block recovery will reduce the stun duration after block.

    Energy shield is like a barrier that absorbs damage before it gets to life for example, if you had 1000 life and 2000 Energy shield, monsters would have to deal 2000 damage to you before they get to your life, so effectively you have 3000hp. But there is one important thing you should be wary of when using Energy shield without some unique items or keystone by default chaos damage can directly bypass it and attack your life while ignoring your Energy shield thats why most Energy Shield builds use Chaos Inoculation (widely known as CI) keystone that turns your build into purely Energy Shield character (The drawback of keystone is that you have maximum life of 1 but you are immune to chaos damage). CI builds were extremely popular but now with the introduction of 3.0 patch Energy shield builds are getting nerfed and life builds are getting buffed.

    When you are playing Energy shield builds, you have no option of using life flasks to quickly regain health as you do have when playing life builds. Like other items, there are unique versions of flasks, some are very strong and can boost power of  your build by quite a bit. You can see a few flask examples in the image below, but you can always visit PoE Wiki and see the list of all flasks.

    One important quest is theDeal with The Banditsquest in act 2. In this quest, there are 3 bandits that are terrorizing the village that you are asked to take care of. The unique thing about this quest is there are 4 possible rewards that depend on what you do. When you encounter the bandits, you are given the choice of helping him or killing him. If you choo

    Blood Rage Blood rage is an active skill which when cast, temporarily gives you attack speed, life leech and chance to get Frenzy Charge on kill, however, it makes you take physical damage 4% of your maximum life or energy shield. You can renew duration of Blood Rage by killing enemies.

    There are 3 main defenses that go on top of your life Armour, Evasion, and Energy shield. On top of that, you also have 3 Elemental resistances (Fire, Lightning, and Cold) and Chaos resistance. Elemental resistances start with 0% and as you progress, more resistance is needed for them to be capped (for example your resistances will be -60% when you hit late game and have no +% to x resistance stats on your equipment). Capped resistances is a must for every character that goes into the late game (Except chaos resistance, which even at -60% is not deadly at all).

    Another thing that sets classes apart is their starting attributes which you can see in the table below:

    Characters start out with level 1 and get stronger as you level up. To finish the main storyline you have to go through 10 acts that are divided in Part I and Part II where you revisit Part I.

    Armour (associated with strength) lots of melee characters have armour as their primary source of damage mitigation some combine it with block chance, which is another way to avoid taking damage but requires shield or dual wielding weapons. Also, Granite Flasks and Basalt Flasks are extremely useful when used in combination with armour. In terms of reliability, armour would be the most consistent defensive mechanism.

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    Fortify this buff grants you 20% reduced damage taken from hits.

    There are three different types of charges:

    Skill gems can be socketed in sockets of their corresponding color for example, you can put green gems only in green and white sockets (White sockets can have a gem of any color socketed in them). The maximum amount of sockets one item can have is 6 (Only two-handed weapons and Body armors can have 6 sockets), so naturally, 1 active skill gem can be supported by 5 support gems. However, for active skill gem to be supported by support gem, sockets that theyre in have to be linked together. Below you can see a 3-linked item with 1 active skill gem and 1 support gem linked together.

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    Power charges:40% increased global critical strike chance per power charge,

    Item level can be very important for several reasons:

    3rd Skill gem is a minion gem as you can see it has tagMinion,which means it will be affected by such skill gems as Minion Damage Support or Minion Life Support; it can also be supported with Faster Casting Support or Spell Echo Support. This specific skill gem hashidden attack modifieras well some of the minion skill gems (this included) summon minions who use attacks when they kill enemies, which means it can also be supported by Melee Splash Support, however, does not benefit from Weapon Elemental damage because they do not attack with weapons. Not everything is written on the gem and you will learn these hidden combinations while playing the game but a lot of information can be found just by looking at the tags that are on skill gems.

    Maim when you are affected by Maim, your movement speed is reduced by 30%, which can hurt in some situations but there arent many monsters that apply this debuff.

    This game is very unforgiving when it comes to poor character defense, so being able to survive is a vital part of the experience. Defense is arguably much more important than offense in Path of Exile and each character must have a way to survive.

    Trials to first 3 Labyrinths are found in certain locations, which you can see in the wiki link above and trials for Eternal labyrinth can be randomly found in endgame maps. Each class (except Scion) has 3 Ascendancy classes to choose from you can see the listhere.

    Greater Multiple Projectiles Support

    Then there are debuffs, that negatively impact your character. Some of the most popular debuffs are:

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    Tarot Mythology The Surprising Origins of the Worlds Most Misunderstood Cards

    One of Matthews favorite decks is the Lenormand published by Bernd A. Mertz in 2004 based on a design circa 1840. Photo courtesy Caitln Matthews.

    But ask Davis today how he felt when he was creating these ghastly cartoons, and he reveals a side of himself that may disappoint hardcore gore groupies. Oh, I didnt particularly care for it, the 88-year-old artist says. My wife didnt agree with it; she didnt like the horror bit at all. But I had to do it, so I did it. I got paid for it, and the editors liked it. Evidently, it had a lot of fans.

    Even if you arent familiar with tarot-card reading, youve likely seen one of the common decks, like the famous Rider-Waite, which has been continually printed since 1909. Named for publisher William Rider and popular mystic A.E. Waite, who commissioned Pamela Colman Smith to illustrate the deck, the Rider-Waite helped bring about the rise of 20th-century occult tarot used by mystical readers.

    Even the earliest known tarot decks werent designed with mysticism in mind; they were actually meant for playing a game similar to modern-day bridge. Wealthy families in Italy commissioned expensive, artist-made decks known as carte da trionfi or cards of triumph. These cards were marked with suits of cups, swords, coins, and polo sticks (eventually changed to staves or wands), and courts consisting of a king and two male underlings.Tarot cardslater incorporated queens, trumps (the wild cards unique to tarot), and the Fool to this system, for a complete deck that usually totaled 78 cards. Today, the suit cards are commonly called the Minor Arcana, while trump cards are known as the Major Arcana.

    Mad, in fact, was a wild success, and of all ECs horror artists, despite being singled out by Wertham, Davis came out the most unscathed by the Comics Code. His expressive faces and big-headed caricatures served comedy well at Mad, Panic, and later at EC competitor Cracked. Thanks to his talent and speed, he also found work doing advertising art for the likes of Parker Brothers,Pepsi, Procter & Gamble, Purina, and theU.S. Postal Service. In the 1960s and 70s, he contributed 22 covers for TV Guide, 36 covers for Time magazine, and well-knownpublicity postersfor movies like Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, and Woody Allens Bananas. Jack Davis was the go-to cartoonist of the 1970s.

    You either have these very shallow ones or these rampantly esoteric ones with so many signs and symbols on them you can barely make them out, says Matthews. I bought my first tarot pack, which was the Tarot de Marseille published by Grimaud in 1969, and I recently came right around back to it after not using it for a while. Presumably originating in the 17th century, the Tarot de Marseille is one of the most common types of tarot deck ever produced. Marseille decks were generally printed with woodblocks and later colored by hand using basic stencils.

    Graphic designer and artist Bill Wolf, whose interest in tarot illustration dates to his art-school days at Cooper Union in New York, has his own theories about the tarots beginning. Wolf, who doesnt use cards for divination, believes that originally, the meaning of the imagery was parallel to the mechanics of the play of the game. The random draw of the cards created a new, unique narrative each and every time the game was played, and the decisions players made influenced the unfolding of that narrative. Imagine a choose-your-own-adventure style card game.

    But Davis is humble about his influence. I love to draw cartoons, thats all, he says. And I had a good rep who got me good work. But Im retired now.

    While Davis didnt relish drawing hideous and frightful images, he was a fan of spooky tales. I loved Frankenstein and the old horrormovies, he says. Id always loved ghost stories, too. When I was growing up, they had a show on theradiocalled Lights Out. We used to have a gang of kids whod get together to listen to it at night. It was great; itd frighten you, and it probably influenced me.

    The Crypt-Keeper, a living, long-haired humanoid fiend, told The Crypt of Terror stories, which were illustrated by Davis and were featured in all three comic titles. Davis made his Ghoul-Lunatic more scabrous and decrepit than EC editor Al Feldsteins original, a shadowy figure whose stringy locks covered his face. Starting in 1952 with issue 29, Davis drew all of the covers for Tales From the Crypt until the comic book met its end in 1955 with issue 46.

    The Rider-Waite deck was designed for divination and included a book written by Waite in which he explained much of the esoteric meaning behind the imagery, says Wolf. People say its revolutionary point of genius is that the pip cards are illustrated, meaning that Colman Smith incorporated the number of suit signs into little scenes, and when taken together, they tell a story in pictures. This strong narrative element gives readers something to latch onto, in that it is relatively intuitive to look at a combination of cards and derive your own story from them.

    The Empress. The Hanged Man. The Chariot. Judgment. With their centuries-old iconography blending a mix of ancient symbols, religious allegories, and historic events, tarot cards can seem purposefully opaque. To outsiders and skeptics, occult practices like card reading have little relevance in our modern world. But a closer look at these miniature masterpieces reveals that the power of these cards isnt endowed from some mystical sourceit comes from the ability of their small, static images to illuminate our most complex dilemmas and desires.

    On the Geografia deck, the symbolic imagery is reduced to a small colored segment at the top of each card; the rest is related to global geography. Via eBay.

    Australian rock poster artist Ken Taylor designed this Mondo poster for the Tales From the Crypt TV series, which ran from June 1989 to July 1996 on HBO. In the TV show, the Crypt-Keeper was an animated corpse, as opposed to the living Ghoul-Lunatic from the comic. (Courtesy of Mondo)

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    When iconic Mad Magazine illustrator Jack Davis launched his career in the early 1950s, he made a name for himself drawing nightmarish images for EC Comics titles such as Tales From the Crypt. Horror fans today still marvel at his towering and intricately detailed fiendscorrupt men with shadowy, crevassed faces; feral werewolves with saliva dripping from their fangs; hordes of slimy skeletal corpses that seem to reach out at you; and, of course, all those dismembered body parts strewn about the pages.

    But not all of them. I saw acomic bookone day and went down to the offices of Entertaining Comics, where I met the publisher, Bill Gaines. My work was bad, and they liked it, he says, laughing. They gave me some stuff to work on right away, and I was very excited about that.

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    In contrast to most oracle decks, which dont include suited pip cards, Lenormand cards feature a unique combination of numbered playing-card imagery on top of illustrated scenes used for fortune-telling. One of the earliest versions, called the Game of Hope, was made by a German named J.K. Hechtel and was prepared like a board game, says Matthews. You laid out cards 1 to 36, and the object of the game was to throw the dice and move your tokens along it. If you got to card 35, which was the anchor card, then youre home, safe and dry. But if you went beyond that, it was the cross, which was not so good. It was like the game Snakes and Ladders. In this way, the Game of Hope fell into the Victorian-era tradition ofboard gamesthat determined a players life story based on luck.

    The games original instructions said it could be used for divining because the illustration on each card included both a symbolic image, like the anchor, and a specific playing card, like the nine of spades. Hechtel must have seen that there were overlaps between divining with playing cards, which, of course, everyone did, and his game, says Matthews. Many other oracle decks appeared around the same time at the end of the 18th century and into the early 19th century. They became really popular after the Napoleonic Wars when everyone settled down and became terribly bourgeois.

    However, using cards for playful divination probably goes back even further, to the 14th century, likely originating with Mamluk game cards brought to Western Europe from Turkey. By the 1500s, the Italian aristocracy was enjoying a game known as tarocchi appropriati, in which players were dealt random cards and used thematic associations with these cards to write poetic verses about one anothersomewhat like the popular childhood game MASH. These predictive cards were referred to as sortes, meaning destinies or lots.

    Les Amusements des Allemands, circa 1796, has many overlaps with Lenormand decks. Via the British Museum.

    While the tarot is the most widely known, its just one type of deck used for divination; others include commonplaying cardsand so-called oracle decks, a term encompassing all the other fortune-telling decks distinct from the traditional tarot. Etteilla eventually switched to using a traditional tarot deck, which he claimed held secret wisdom passed down from ancient Egypt. Etteillas premise echoed the writings of Court de Gbelin, who allegedly recognized Egyptian symbols in tarot-card illustrations. Though hieroglyphics had not yet been deciphered (the Rosetta Stone was rediscovered in 1799), many European intellectuals in the late 18th century believed the religion and writings of ancient Egypt held major insights into human existence. By linking tarot imagery to Egyptian mysticism, they gave the cards greater credibility.

    At EC Comics, Davis was assigned the Crypt-Keeper, one of three Ghoul-Lunatic hosts in the EC horror comics line. The Crypt-Keeper headlined Tales From the Crypt while his rivals, the Vault-Keeper and the Old Witch, had top billing in the The Vault of Horror and The Haunt of Fear titles respectively. However, all three narrated stories in each of the three bimonthly comics, which were virtually indistinguishable except for their names.

    It was Bill Gaines who gave Davisrecently honored in a 2011 Fantagraphics retrospective book calledJack Davis: Drawing American Pop Culturehis first break. The young artist, whod been drawing since kindergarten, had published comic strips in middle school and high school, in the Navy, and at the University of Georgia. When he graduated in 1950, he hoped to land his dream job working on thenewspaperfunny pages so he could afford to marry his college sweetheart, Dena Roquemore.

    A few of the cards from Etteillas esoteric deck, reproduced by Grimaud in 1890.

    This Lenormand-style oracle deck shows a mixture of playing card and fortune-telling illustrations, circa 1870. Photo courtesy Bill Wolf.

    I hoped that Mad would catch on, and it did. says Davis, who had two young children when the magazine launched. A lot of parents probably didnt like Mad. The stories were satire, and sometimes they were good, but sometimes they were kind of bad. I dont particularly like the way its going now, he adds. Its stuff I dont cotton with. Im pretty conservative now. I love the guys that are down there, theyre good people, but I just dont work for Mad anymore.

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    The deck really took off in popularity when Stuart Kaplan obtained the publishing rights and developed an audience for it in the early 70s, says Wolf. Kaplan helped renew interest in card reading with his 1977 book,Tarot Cards for Fun and Fortune Telling, and has since written several volumes on tarot.

    Whats been largely lost to history is how remarkably influential wom

    Top: A selection of trump cards (top row) and pip cards (bottom row) from the first edition of the Rider-Waite deck, circa 1909. Via the World of Playing Cards. Above: Cards from a Tarot de Marseille deck made by François Gassmann, circa 1870. Photo courtesy Bill Wolf.

    After 150 years, America is still haunted by the ghosts of its Civil War, whose story has been romanticized for so long its hard to keep the facts straight. In our collective memory of the war, men are the giants, the heroes remembered as fighting nobly for their beliefs. Confederate General Robert E. Lees surrender to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Court House in Virginia on April 9, 1865, has achieved the status of legend, the moment a broken country started to reunite, even though thatsnot exactly true.

    This woodblock version of the classic Tarot de Marseille was published around 1751 by Claude Burdel. Photo courtesy Bill Wolf.

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    The final panels of Foul Play!, a ghoulish Jack Davis-drawn revenge story from The Haunt of Fear, which was cited in Frederic Werthems The Seduction of the Innocent as a tale that could corrupt young minds. (Via )

    When we used to send telegrams, each word costs money, Matthews explains, so youd have to send very few words like, Big baby. Mother well. Come to hospital. And youd get the gist of it. I read cards in a very similar waystarting from a few general keywords and making sense of them by filling in the words that are missing. This isnt the tarot style of reading where you project things, like, I can see that youve recently had a great disappointment. Mercury is in retrograde and da da da. A cartomantic reading is much more straightforward and pragmatic, for example, Your wife will eat tomatoes and fall off the roof and die horribly. Its a direct way of reading, a pre-New Age way of reading.

    Even though I wasnt around when it was originally published, the HBO Tales From the Crypt was an amazing intro into a demented world of darkly comedic horror stories and vivid artwork, says Mondo CEO Justin Ishmael. EC Comics editor Bill Gaines is one of my heroes, and its so incredibly exciting to combine his creations with thirty something artists that are also fans of that era.

    I also enjoy reading with the Lenormand deck made by Daveluy, which has been beautifully reworked byLauren Forestell, who specializes in restoring facsimile deckscleaning up 200 years worth of card shuffling and human grief. The coloring on the Daveluy is very beautiful. Chromolithography gave an incredibly clear color to everything, and I think it was probably as revolutionary as Technicolor was in the days of the movies.

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    According to Davis, Gaines was a generous boss, taking his artists and writers such as Al Feldstein, Harvey Kurtzman, and Sergio Aragons on trips to places like Japan, Mexico, and Russia, to have adventures and enjoy good food. At first, I was afraid of Bill Gaines, but then I began to like him, Davis recalls. He was a great publisher, and he was very giving. He took us on trips we wouldnt have been able to afford. I was very blessed and lucky to be in his stable.

    A lot of fans, indeed. Tales From the Crypt and other EC horror titles, all of which folded in 1955 due to public outrage, have had a lasting impact on the horror genre. The comic not only inspired the late 1980s HBO show of the same name, it also influenced the look of countless movies and television shows, including Buffy the Vampire Slayer and A Nightmare on Elm Street.

    By the mid-18th century, the mystical applications for cards had spread from Italy to other parts of Europe. In France, writer Antoine Court de Gbelin asserted that the tarot was based on a holy book written by Egyptian priests and brought to Europe by Gypsies from Africa. In reality, tarot cards predated the presence of Gypsies in Europe, who actually came from Asia rather than Africa. Regardless of its inaccuracies, Court de Gbelins nine-volume history of the world was highly influential.

    The comics were pretty bad, pretty gruesome, Davis admits. The Senate had an investigation, which they probably should have had. But when Tales of the Crypt ended, I was very disappointed, because I needed the work.

    Florian Bertmer, a modern-day German illustrator from the hardcore punk and metal scene, gives his take on The Vault of Horror in a piece featured in Mondos art show. (Courtesy of Mondo)

    Contrary to what the uninitiated might think, the meaning of divination cards changes over time, shaped by each eras culture and the needs of individual users. This is partly why these decks can be so puzzling to outsiders, as most of them reference allegories or events familiar to people many centuries ago.Caitln Matthews, who teachescourseson cartomancy, or divination with cards, says that before the 18th century, the imagery on these cards was accessible to a much broader population. But in contrast to these historic decks, Matthews finds most modern decks harder to engage with.

    Trump cards from the Tarrocchini Bolognese designed by Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, circa 1664.

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    Teacher and publisher Jean-Baptiste Alliette wrote his first book on the tarot in 1791, called Etteilla, ou Lart de lire dans les cartes, meaning Etteilla, or the Art of Reading Cards. (Alliette created this mystical pseudonym Etteilla simply by reversing his surname.) According to Etteillas writings, he first learned divination with a deck of 32 cards designed for a game called Piquet, along with the addition of his special Etteilla card. This type of card is known as the significator and typically stands in for the individual having their fortune read.

    In 2013, Mondo Gallery in Austin hosted an exhibition featuring work that pays tribute to Tales From the Crypt, both the comics and the TV show. Among the pieces in the show is a new illustration by Jack Davis of his former boss, EC Comics publisher and editor Bill Gaines, posing with the infamous Crypt-Keeper.

    Though historians like Kaplan and Matthews publish new information on divination decks every year, there are still many holes in the larger story of fortune-telling cards. Wolf points out that those who use cards for divination are often at odds with academics researching their past. Theres a lot of friction between tarot historians and card readers about the origins and purpose of tarot cards, Wolf says. The evidence suggests they were invented for gaming and evolved for use in divination at a much later date. Personally, I believe they were designed for game play, but that the design is a bit more sophisticated than many tarot historians seem to believe.

    Tarot Mythology: The Surprising Origins of the Worlds Most Misunderstood Cards

    By comparing various decks from different time periods, tarot-card enthusiasts can identify the evolution of certain illustrations. For example, says Matthews, the modern version of the hermit with the lantern, youll find that that was an hourglass and he was Saturn or Chronos, the keeper of time. You can see how that translates with the Tarot Bolognese meaning of delay or blockage. It was about time moving slowly, though thats not used as a modern meaning much now.

    Top: Even though hes retired, Jack Davis drew this image for Mondo of EC editor Bill Gaines holding a favorite treat, plantains, with his arm around the Crypt-Keeper. Above: Italian comic-book artist Francesco Francavilla pays tribute to Tales From the Crypt. (Images courtesy of Mondo.)

    For the first issue of Mad, for OctoberNovember 1952, started with Hoohah!, a lighthearted spoof by Jack Davis mocking the horror genre, which was his bread-and-butter. (Via )

    A version of the popular Rider-Waite deck from 1920. Photo courtesy Bill Wolf.

    Etteilla was one of the people who actually made divination so esoteric, says Matthews. He created a deck that incorporated all the things from Court de Gbelin and his book Le Monde Primitif [The Primitive World], which suggested an Egyptian origin for the tarot and all sorts of arcane things. Matthews makes a distinction between the tarots abstract interpretations and the straightforward cartomantic reading style that thrived during the 16th and 17th centuries, prior to Etteilla.

    But to balance such arcane decks, there are divinatory cards that offer little room for interpretation, like Le Scarabe dOr or The Golden Beetle Oracle, one of Wolfs most prized decks. Its just fantastically bizarre. Theres a little window in the lid of the card box, and when you shake it, the beetle appears, and points to a number, he explains. Then you find the corresponding number on a set of round cards, with beautiful script text on them, and read your fortune. Can you not imagine standing in a Victorian parlor in France, consulting the Golden Beetle? It was like performance art.

    Matthews has authored several books on divinatory cards, and her latest is. This 36-card deck was named after the celebrity card-reader Mademoiselle Marie Anne Lenormand, who was popular around the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, though the decks bearing her name werent actually produced until after her death. The oldest packs in Matthews collection are two Lenormand-style decks, the French Daveluy of the 1860s and the Viennese Zauberkarten deck from 1864, which were some of the first decks to be illustrated using the technique of chromolithography.

    The illustration on some decks did double duty, providing divinatory tools and scientific knowledge, like the Geografia Tarocchi deck from around 1725. The Geografia are extraordinary cards, almost like a little encyclopedia of the world with the oracle imagery peeking out at the top, Matthews says. The actual bit that you read from is just a cigarette-card length. So for example, the hanged man just shows his legs at the top of the card, while the rest of the card has information about Africa or Asia or other places on it.

    Quite recently, it was discovered byMary Greerthat there was a prior source to the Lenormand cards, she continues. Theres a deck in the British Museum called Les Amusements des Allemands (The German Entertainment). Basically, a British firm put together a pack of cards that has images and little epigrams on the bottom, which say things like, Be aware, dont spend your money unwisely, and that sort of thing. Its quite trite. But it came with a book of text thats almost identical to the instructions for later packs of Lenormand cards.

    Most card readers recognize that the associations and preconceptions of the person being read for are just as important as the actual drawings on the cards: Divination cards offer a way to project certain ideas, whether subconscious or not, and to toy with potential outcomes for important decisions. Thus, like scenes from a picture book, the best illustrations typically offer clear visions of their subjects with an open-ended quality, as though the action is unfolding before you.

    The stories in these comics are often morality tales, relying on tropes as old as time, in which people doing evil meet some horrendous end. Others were simple eye-for-eye type revenge stories, and still others were as silly as they were gross (a rotting mummy and a preserved two-headed corpse fall in love, for example). Some of them were attributed to contemporary author Ray Bradbury, and others were clearly influenced by macabre Victorian writers like Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, and W.W. Jacobs. And then there were the Tales that were simply the wild inventions of EC editors like Feldstein, who gave Davis stories to draw.

    Thanks to Werthams book, which claimed that comics encouraged juvenile delinquency, concerned parents, teachers, and ministers put pressure on politicians to intervene, leading to the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency in April and June of 1954. This hand-slapping by the U.S. government prompted publishers to form the Comics Code Authority, which banned words like horror and terror from titles, as well as monster characters like zombies and werewolves. That spelled the end for the horror comics of the era and their explicit imagery. Feeling that EC was being targeted specifically, Gaines published his last horror comic dated for February-March 1955.

    I wanted to be a cartoonist and get syndicated, says Davis, who worked as an assistant to Ed Dodd, creator of the syndicated Mark Trail comic strip, while he was in college. I figured I had to go to New York City because that was where everything in publishing was, including the comics syndicates. I took a year at the Art Students League in New York, and Id look for work. Id go up and down Madison Avenue, where I was rejected at the syndicates and at a lot of the publishers.

    In contrast, the meanings in other decks are particularly difficult to decipher, like the infamous Thoth tarot developed by Aleister Crowley, notorious for his involvement with various cults and experimentation with recreational drugs and so-called sex magick. Completed in 1943, the Thoth deck was illustrated by Lady Frieda Harris and incorporated a range of occult and scientific symbols, inspiring many modern decks. As Wolf explains, with the rise of the divination market in the 20th century, more liberties were taken, and the imagery evolved into increasingly personal artistic statements, both in content and style of execution.

    Oracle decks like the Lenormand tend to rely on more direct visual language than traditional tarot cards. The tarot can often speak in broad, timeless, universal statements about our place in the world, says Wolf. The imagery of fortune-telling decks is more illustrational and less archetypal. The images are generally more specific, simpler, and less universal, keeping the conversation more straightforward.

    Two hand-painted Mamluk cards from Turkey (left) and two cards from the Visconti family deck (right), both circa 15th century.

    When psychologist Frederic Wertham published his comic-damning book The Seduction of the Innocent in 1954, he pointed to Foul Play!, a Jack Davis-drawn story from the May-June 1953 issue of The Haunt of Fear, as an example of a comic that perverted childrens minds. In it, a star baseball player uses his shoe spikes to poison the opposing teams best hitter. When the opposing team realizes what has happened, they plot a grisly revenge, shown in graphic detail.

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    Soon, Davis, who was sick of being a starving artist, developed a reputation for speed, as an artist who could sketch and ink sometimes three pages in a day. Id have to be fast, because when you turned them in, thats when youd get your money, Davis says. The faster you drew, the faster the money came in.

    The imagery was designed to reflect important aspects of the real world that the players lived in, and the prominent Christian symbolism in the cards is an obvious reflection of the Christian world in which they lived, he adds. As divinatory usage became more popular, illustrations evolved to reflect a specific designers intention. The subjects took on more and more esoteric meaning, says Wolf, but they generally maintained the traditional tarot structure of four suits of pip cards [similar to the numbered cards in a normal playing-card deck], corresponding court cards, and the additional trump cards, with a Fool.

    The Jack Davis-drawn story Lower Berth!, appearing in the December 1952-January 1953 issue of Tale From the Crypt, explains the origins of the Crypt-Keeper, who came about after two sideshow corpses fell in love. (Via )

    Fortunately, Davis already had his foot in the door at new satire publication called Mad, started by EC writer and cartoonist Harvey Kurtzman. The first issue of Mad in 1952 began with a Davis story called, Hoohah! a humorous spoof on all the cliched horror tropes he routinely depicted for EC Comics.

    A hand-colored set of tarot cards produced by F. Gumppenberg, circa 1810. Photo courtesy Bill Wolf.

    Building on Court de Gbelins Egyptian connection, Etteilla claimed that tarot cards originated with the legendary Book of Thoth, which supposedly belonged to the Egyptian god of wisdom. According to Etteilla, the book was engraved by Thoths priests into gold plates, providing the imagery for the first tarot deck. Drawing on these theories, Etteilla published his own deck in 1789one of the first designed explicitly as a divination tool and eventually referred to as the Egyptian tarot.

    Matthews favorite decks are those with straightforward illustrations, like the Tarocchino Bolognese by Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, an Italian deck created sometime around the 1660s. Matthews owns a facsimile of the Mitelli deck, rather than an original, which means she can use them without fear of damaging a priceless antique. The deck that I enjoy most is the Mertz Lenormand deck because of its clarity, she says. The background on each card is a creamy, vellum color, so when you lay them out in tableau, you can see the illustrations very clearly. I frankly get so tired of all the new Photoshopped tarots and the slick art, with their complete lack of any framework or substance.

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