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Currency Basics — Gold vs Orbs Understand PoE2 two currency systems and avoid the most expensive beginner mistake. The Basics — What to Know First Resistances, defence layers, rune sockets, reading item rarity, and loot filters — the essentials for the campaign. Loot Filters — Show Only What Matters Applying a filter, following one so it syncs with your account, and the filter conditions that only exist in PoE2 (Waystone tier, unidentified tier, Vaal uniques) — plus where old PoE1 filter syntax breaks. Currency Management — Hold Value, Not Clutter Convert surplus currency into higher-value currency to protect your buying power, and understand how exchange rates shift over a season. Defense Basics — Resistances, Armour, Evasion, Energy Shield Elemental/chaos resistances and the max-res cap, what armour, evasion, energy shield and Runic Ward each stop, plus life and spirit — the core of survival. Damage Types & Ailments — Physical, Elemental, Chaos and Ignite, Freeze, Shock The five damage types and the 0.5 ailment roster (Ignite, Chill, Freeze, Shock, Electrocute, Bleeding, Poison), and how enemy resistance, penetration, and exposure affect your damage. Skill Gems & Support Gems — Uncut Gems, Linking, and Spirit Cutting uncut gems to get skills, the rules for attaching support gems to a skill, and running persistent skills on Spirit. Passive Tree Basics & Using the Planner Passive tree node types (small, notable, keystone, jewel socket), weapon-set points, gold respec, and how to save and share builds with this site's planner. Crafting Basics — Making Gear with Orbs, Essences, and Runes The flow of rolling gear with basic orbs, guaranteed mods from essences, socketed runes and soul cores, and the Reforging and Salvage benches — the big picture of beginner crafting. How to Trade — the Trade Site and Currency Exchange 0.5's asynchronous item trade (trade site, Merchant's Tab, Secure Item) and the Currency Exchange, plus price checking and avoiding scams. Leveling & Campaign Progress — Act Order and Pace The 0.5 campaign structure (Acts 1-4 + three Interludes, Cruel removed), tips to move faster, re-capping resistances each act, and preparing for the level-65 endgame. Ascendancy Classes — Concept and How to Choose What Ascendancy is, earning Ascendancy points (8 total) through the Trials, and how to choose the direction that fits your build. Starter Builds & Choosing a Class — How to Decide How to pick a starting class, forgiving directions for beginners, early traps to avoid, and how to find up-to-date build info. Atlas Mapping in Full — Waystones, Tablets, and the Fortress Identifying and upgrading Waystones, the modifier-vs-portal tradeoff, slotting Tablets into Towers, and pathing to the Precursor Fortress — the whole 0.5 mapping loop. Six Map Mechanics — Breach, Expedition, Ritual, Delirium, Abyss, Temple How the in-map league mechanics work, and each one's pinnacle boss. Pinnacle Bosses — the 0.5 Access Model and All Eight The completely reworked 0.5 pinnacle access model (quest vs repeatable versions), plus the key and route for each of the eight pinnacle bosses. Masters of the Atlas — All 36 Nodes and When to Run Each Master The shared rules of the 0.5 Atlas Masters, all twelve nodes for Doryani, Hilda and Jado, how each unlocks, and how the way you rolled the map decides which Master to switch on. The Arbiter of Ash — Crisis Fragments and the Burning Monolith How to reach the Arbiter of Ash: the exact source of each Crisis Fragment, the Burning Monolith's move into the Fortress, and quest vs repeatable versions. The Arbiter of Divinity — the Origin Tower and Building an Origin Core How to reach the Arbiter of Divinity: the Origin Spark and Cradle from the Patriarch and Matriarch Halls, and using each kill to auto-complete a Fortress section. Xesht, We That Are One — the Breachlord Sac and the Twisted Domain How to reach the Breach pinnacle boss Xesht: obtaining the Breachlord Sac, the Dreamer at the Monastery of the Keepers, and running the 45-second-timer Twisted Domain. The Raven Trickster — Raven's Reflection and the Mirror in the Withered Willow How to reach the Delirium pinnacle boss The Raven Trickster (Tangmazu): earning Raven's Reflection from a Simulacrum and using it at the Mirror in the Withered Willow. The Bodach — the Rite of the Nameless and Caer Tarth How to reach the Ritual pinnacle boss The Bodach: the five pieces attached to the effigy in Caer Tarth, and how it differs from the King in the Mists. The Aberration — Past Olroth to the Verisium Crater How to reach the Expedition / Runes of Aldur pinnacle boss The Aberration: the Olroth prerequisite, The Triskelion Reforged, and its Starlit Ore rewards. Vessel of Kulemak — the Invitation, the Black Cathedral, and Stealing Lich Power How to reach the Abyss pinnacle boss Vessel of Kulemak, and the risk-reward loop where you revive it to grow your rewards. Atziri, the Red Queen — the Only Boss You Build Your Way Into How to reach the Vaal Temple pinnacle boss Atziri: no key item, placing rooms to open the Royal Access Chamber, and the rule that dying closes the temple. Trial of the Sekhemas — Climbing Four Floors While Protecting Honour How to run the Trial of the Sekhemas ascension trial: the Djinn Barya key, the Honour resource, the Relic system, and the floor tiers that grant ascendancy points. Trial of Chaos — Stacking Trial Modifiers Across Rounds How to run the Trial of Chaos ascension trial: the Inscribed Ultimatum key, accumulating Trial modifiers, Soul Core rewards, ascendancy-point tiers, and reaching the Trialmaster. Running Delirium — Fog, Shards, and Simulacrum How 0.5 Delirium actually works: what the progress bar means, following the fog to the map boss, the Atlas setup for farming Liquid Emotions, and the 7-wave Simulacrum. Running Breach — Progress Bars, Strongholds, and Sky Fortresses How 0.5 Breach works: filling the progress bar to summon Vruun, farming Wombgifts around the Monastery of the Keepers, the three new Stronghold encounters, and the actual route to Xesht. Ritual Tribute and Choosing Rewards — Defer, Reroll, Offer to the King How to maximise Tribute in Ritual and land the Omen you want: the 25% penalty on revived monsters, what deferring and rerolling actually cost, and when to offer leftover Tribute to the King.

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