Finally, the large update "Hunt Tide Dawn" on April 4, 2025, is about to arrive. This preview only shows a small portion of the new skills, but according to the official statement, there will be 100+ new legends and 100+ new auxiliary skills when it goes live. This article will provide a detailed explanation on how to use the new skills in Path of Exile 2, organized with official information and core mechanisms as follows. Let's take a look.
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I. Exclusive Skills for The Huntress (This is the core class of this update)
1. Hit and Run
Mechanism: Quickly dash to the enemy and launch a melee attack, then leap back and throw a spear for ranged damage, combining mobility and combo output.
Positioning: Suitable for flexible switching between clearing maps and boss fights, best paired with area damage support gems.
2. Savage Counterattacks
Mechanism: Triggers a powerful counterattack after blocking an enemy's attack with a round shield, which can cover both melee and ranged modes.
Feature: Enhances survival, especially suitable for dealing with sudden damage in high-difficulty dungeons.
3. Primal Fury
Mechanism: Summons beasts and natural elements (such as storms, fire) to perform area attacks, causing continuous elemental damage to enemies.
Tactical: Can choose the type of summon based on the battlefield environment, for example, storms are good for crowd control, while beasts are better for single-target bursts.
II. New Summoning and General Skills
1. Raise Spectre: Can capture the soul of almost any monster and summon it to fight. After the spectre dies, it consumes "soul points" to automatically resurrect, with the amount consumed increasing with the monster's strength. You can choose souls with high damage or high durability depending on the scenario, such as summoning elite monsters to enhance your offensive capabilities.
2. Summon Rhoa: Summons a Rhoa as a combat partner. While riding, you can move at high speed and maintain ranged attacks (shooting arrows or throwing spears). Even after dismounting, the Rhoa can still participate in battle. Significantly increases mobility, especially suitable for boss fights that require frequent movement.
III. Ascendancy Class Skill Expansions
1. The Amazon
Weapon Infusion Talent: Adds elemental damage to weapons, triggering an explosion effect when projectiles hit enemies, similar to the "Lightning Fury" mechanism in Diablo 2. For example, firing 10 projectiles can trigger a chain explosion, dealing massive damage to bosses.
Hit Value Conversion: Converts 25% of the weapon's hit value into physical damage (e.g., 500 hit value → +125 base damage), making previously unpopular affixes a core resource.
2. The Smith of Kitava
Forging Reshape: Can smelt weapons during combat, temporarily changing their attributes (e.g., physical to fire), adapting to different combat needs.
3. The Lich
Soul Sacrifice: Uses gems as "heart boxes," enhancing skill strength by sacrificing soul points, such as strengthening curse effects or chaos damage.
IV. Auxiliary Skills and Equipment Synergy
1. 100+ New Support Gems
Functional Diversity: For example, "Withering Touch" (converts physical damage to chaos and adds withering effect) and "Rapid Projection" (increases projectile speed and penetration), greatly enriching build diversity.
2. Exclusive Equipment for The Huntress
Unique Spears and Round Shields: For example, "Gale Splitter" (increases the range of the Hit and Run skill) and "Mirror Round Shield" (triggers additional counterattacks after blocking), enhancing the unique playstyle of the class.
V. New Skill Mechanisms for Endgame Content
1. Azmerian Wisps
Mechanism: When wisps possess monsters, they grant them new abilities (such as summoning clones, increased elemental resistance). Defeating these monsters rewards equipment with corresponding wisp modifiers, requiring strategic skill combinations.
2. Cleanse the Corruption
Team Skill Collaboration: In corrupted areas, multiple players need to use purification skills (such as Holy Nova) to weaken the boss's shield and trigger phase transitions.
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In summary, the new skills in Path of Exile 2 have been revealed up to this point. It is recommended to choose the following for gameplay: For early game, you can select the Huntress' "Toxic Rain + Primal Fury" combination, which balances area damage and sustained output. For endgame challenges, the Amazon's "Weapon Infusion + Projectile Explosion" build, paired with high hit value gear, maximizes damage. For a summoner build, use "Raise Spectre + Summon Rhoa" to efficiently clear maps by managing soul points. Give it a try, everyone.
