PoE2 Keystone Mechanics Breakdown & Passive Tree Locations | Path of Exile 2

[@Cyphafrost]

Just a heads up- Eldritch Battery likely isn't making it to initial early access, at least not how we know it. I found an infinite recursive loop that scaled mana forever using it, and sent a private email to support. This loop involved Discipline, since Discipline scales off mana. This likely would have crashed the servers due to the ridiculous amount of nonstop math that would need to be calculated. Hopefully they get a fix by only calculating Discipline off of non-EB values, but I wouldn't be surprised if they played it safe this close to launch.

[@dreamcore_gg]

That's hilarious - I also heard some rumours that it was cut and some others creators had asked a few of the devs on the official discord. When did you submit the bug? Interestingly, Jonathan himself approved my footage for me to discuss that keystone, so it must have been very recent?

[@TheJoosteen]

how did you get discipline to effect yourself?

[@dreamcore_gg]

@@TheJoosteen Likely party play

[@WhatIfTheories]

Dam hope it gets fixed I was planning on using Discipline for my minions and EB to stack mana so they get a beefy ES. I didn't consider Discipline on myself from a party and issues there.

[@Cyphafrost]

@@TheJoosteen Party play from all known knowledge currently- but there's a solid chance there was something somewhere to make it effect yourself too. It's a big game!

[@beziocraft]

A spoiler a day keeps the insanity at bay

[@Kay2kGer]

still sane exile?

[@beziocraft]

for now

[@yeetusmaximus93]

The truth 😂

[@ArantyrDarkhand]

Dude im goin to be traveling i can only play day 11.

[@votpavel]

path of exile 2 was delayed until febuary 13

[@Raxxanterax]

really awesome video man keep making them

[@GambitCrowe]

^^ what he said :D

[@XxZarionxX]

Glancing Blows seems really strong with "Merit of Service", the new unique shield, which gives all allies block chance equal to yours. You give all allies nearly capped block with just one passive and they don't suffer from the increased damage taken downside.

[@prosamis]

This and how auras seem to be more supportive now makes me think you can really build a full-on support character Minions for solo play and full on auras for coop That's awesome

[@royalecrafts6252]

Expect massive nerfs week 2 or 3 for sure

[@hem9483]

@@royalecrafts6252 ofc, that's a guarantee! that's just what happens with new sandboxes, poe players are hardwired to find exploits

[@Empyriangaming]

I will stay tuned, and stay safe. Thank you as always!

[@StayCalm0]

Maybe an odd thing to say, but I actually love the calm, slow and kinda flat way you present the information. It gives the viewer time to take it in and it's far more enjoyable than if you were fake hyping things up

[@fang_xianfu]

Definitely, I love that Dreamcore just presents the information and what he thinks about it without talking about how the world will never be the same

[@JackProsper-c4h]

To be fair, one does not need to "fake hype" Path of Exile 2. : )

[@Bozey]

unwavering stance is for block builds, specifically ones that are making use of the active block mechanic since the duration you can active block is based on stun threshold.

[@DrSensible]

I follow a loooot of POE content creators and you continue to rise up in the ranks of my favorites. No bait, no bad takes, just quality information delivered in an intelligent and concise manner. Keep it up Dream!

[@thephilosopher7173]

These videos made me realize how close-knit the community is. Great bunch of ppl.

[@dreamcore_gg]

🚨ONE WEEK TO GO!!! 🚨 Edit: By Heartstopper moved, I meant Lethe Shade

[@Last_Feanoring]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/ppuulKyqjq6keLs&ab_channel=Allie Edit, to add something actually important - The Eldritch Battery you might have seen that has "Converts all Energy Shield to Mana" is NOT going to be in EA. This was confirmed by Snap asking the devs. It wouldve been incredibly not ok. That EB was only in a old build of the game.

[@ArawnOfAnnwn]

Note regarding that last one (Pain Attunement) - the threshold for Low Life in PoE 2 is once again 30% of life, not 50% of life as it currently is in PoE 1.

[@ArantyrDarkhand]

Unwavind stance seens focused in block. When you ACTIVE block the bar that fill and fu ck you when it happen its based in your stun threshold. Glancing blows only works for automatic/passive block. Active block still 100%

[@nitothegravelord7798]

@@Last_Feanoring Allie video as a source XD

[@cheshur6550]

Unwavering Stance is to be used for shield builds, essentially doubling the break time for the shield.

[@f5vicious86]

In regards with the Giant's Blood keystone. The highest strength requirement BASES in PoE 1 are the Coronal Maul and the Impact Force Propagator at 220 strength. While the highest requirement for unique maces is 212 strength. So you will only need 440 strength, not 850.

[@y_rnd]

Yes but you need to double this amount when dual wielding

[@wallacewest7963]

⁠@@y_rndthats not the way it works in poe1. If sword 1 and 2 both require 10 strength then you can dual wield both with only 10 strength. Haven’t got to play poe2 but id be surprised if it works differently

[@y_rnd]

@@wallacewest7963 you are right and it obviously makes more sense this way. You don't need to add every requirement for each piece of gear so why would it be the case when dual wielding. I must have gotten confused when Dreamcore talked about 850 strength.

[@Grinningfartking6969]

Glancing blow will combo with recoup and you'll become unkillable

[@dddmemaybe]

The 50% "less" mana regen rate for mind over matter is a very well designed downside. It makes it so that the build is still a very compelling concept, but sneakily requires a lot of deliberate stat-distribution balance, that of which will also prevent other build categories from feeling inferior.

[@hem9483]

the chayula monk seems a natural fit for MoM shenanigans.

[@TheGabrielbowater]

Holy shit the 1handing a 2hander is on the tree? I thought it was an ascendancy passive. Dope

[@vgorp3849]

acrobatics seems like it will pair well with scaling blindness effect

[@Disciple_]

Full tree when? Please tell me you've already sent that video over to the poeplanner folks.

[@coltonbellamy2742]

Ik im ready for it

[@ArawnOfAnnwn]

Note regarding that last one (Pain Attunement) - the threshold for Low Life in PoE 2 is once again 30% of life, not 50% of life as it currently is in PoE 1. As he mentions, we also don't know if Petrified Blood exists in PoE 2.

[@mishli7670]

I want to say that I saw petrified blood in one of the 'all skills' lists. But not sure

[@TheNuclearGamerr]

Ok just to clarify that means a monster counts at low life starting at 70% of max life?

[@ArawnOfAnnwn]

@@TheNuclearGamerr No, counting at 30% of max life. It's not when missing 30% of your life, it's when your life is less than 30%

[@TheNuclearGamerr]

@ ah gotcha.

[@carlos32195]

For giant's blood I'm thinking the best use would be using low lvl bases with high item lvl for elemental affix.

[@HugeCockAndBalls]

Tri ele weapons are nerfed with the prefix suffix change. Also generic ele damage seems less available now

[@angrymikee9672]

My top-1 Channel about POE at this moment!! GJ Dreamcore

[@dmagick914]

Loving these videos! Can’t wait to see the whole passive tree anx start theorycrafting

[@hruthgardahne822]

Thanks for your consistent good videos and content, dreamcore! Every time its enjoyable to watch, no bs no waste of time no trash. gg

[@Sal_McCoy]

Thank you for taking the time to think about and then collect useful information for the community. This series of videos has been great.

[@Yagami913]

Dreamcore with his infinite knowledge keeping me alive.

[@ilusao1111]

MoM, Eldritch Battery, CI, Archmage Chayula Monk is looking fucking fun.

[@Mugi-v7w]

Something to point out is that increasing your stun threshold will also make it harder to be staggered while raising your shield

[@mshalls7614]

great video, thanks!

[@Castisto]

nice video perfect for learning stuff i love it ty

[@imasquash9421]

Something to note with elemental equillibrium, it seems like pure upside if you deal all three elements in one hit. The wording makes me think it removes then adds exposure resulting in the monster always having all three exposures.

[@KingKongor]

thank you as always

[@pnutbteronbwlz9799]

Seems like zealots oath, with eternal youth and chaos inoculation would be good. If it works how I’m thinking you would always have full life and get regen and flask recovery. But the problem is if the regen scales of life pool then it’s ruined. Which would be a bummer.

[@frederik_9269]

unwavering stance actually makes a lot of sense, if you prefer to use a skill with a lot of animation movement for evasion instead of the dodge roll

[@Psych6vzz]

The only way i can think rn of getting to forced low life for pain attunement is using blood mage since it adds the mana cost to life as well, and using some setups like archmage which increases the amount of mana used and maybe some supports on a high cost skill to control current life. Then take MoM and play mana tank so life only becomes a secondary resource u have to control for those 30% crit dmg. Also Blood Mage has some crit damage stuff based on total life (Gore Spike) so, might synergize 🤔

[@cathexiad7729]

Infernalist can reserve 75% of life for bonuses to mana, es and spirit, but that will take all ascendancy points

[@baccadia6815]

Best Poe content here

[@stillprophet7529]

I feel like Blood Mage is gonna be extremely powerful in poe2 because it no longer stops you from reserving a bunch of things on your mana (now spirit)

[@mrrodgers0]

Can't wait to try CI-MoM-EB Acolyte with the instant leech ascendancy node

[@vegangainzhue4548]

Good shit, mate

[@jeffrey778]

the way that life is now, they could have blood magic also convert mana into life pre modifiers. unwavering stance could at the very least have take 5% less damage.

[@Ambander-p3x]

Even with -50% less mana recovery from Mind over Matter, Chronomancer can always just reset mana back to 100% with her time rewind ability.

[@Cipher_8]

2:43 Giant's Blood has been changed to Triple Attribute requirements of weapons now.

[@virolancer1]

you keep us fed pog

[@zxkredo]

Imagine CI or just ES MOM monk with insta leech. You have your ES and then Mana as your saving grace. You dont even need CI as Mana will now defend your life from chaos damage. This combo could actually be really strong for many low life builds.

[@senanur1983]

Can’t wait to try giants blood - first game to implement double two handed weapon wielding

[@Sorain1]

Diablo 2 would like to know your location.

[@Shugenjya]

Blood Magic with Ifernal Flame will be interesting!

[@BlurredVision18]

Sounds like you're just adding a downside of losing life when you cast to your character....

[@TheNuclearGamerr]

I mean glancing blows will gel really nice when paired with ancient aegis

[@nastymclovin]

note: unwavering stance explicitly says: "can not DODGE ROLL" i think you can bypass this by turning your dodge roll into a dash with that one unique belt recently presented by GGG

[@Scyzzles]

I think Unwavering Stance is rather implying that you'll use movement to dodge big boss slams like in PoE1 instead of rolling. Avatar of Fire might be interesting to try and play around when you can only use each support gem once.

[@Ashtarte3D]

New MoM is nuts for Chayula Monk. Could probably build all mana instead of life and go buck wild.

[@evrypixelcounts]

I wish I was smart enough to use this information to formulate a decent starting build.

[@sagi3933]

I believe there has been confirmation that Eldritch Battery is changed to do basically what it does in PoE 1 (according to Ghazzy, this has been confirmed by GGG as well). That is a hit against a potential overpowered Archmage Setup that uses ES as Mana, but a win for using the new MoM defensively and perhaps Acolyte of Chayula, as it means he can Leech Mana and ES instantly, protecting and using both resources very well, with or without Darkness being used~

[@toukoenriaze9870]

darkness needs to not have any ES too for it not to be consumed

[@ChunkyCoffee]

Without EB as it was you would never want to use ES on a darkness build. Not unless the unrevealed node gives some insane bonus for reserving darkness counter to the chaos for unreserved. As darkness as it is is like a very small 600 damage ward for 10 seconds at lvl 100.

[@Gore-okami]

umvearing stance looks good for shield builds and shield charge. if we block everything on shiled charge i guess it breaks our stun trhreeshold as active block on "raise shield" skill

[@islar7832]

Chaos Inoculation + Blood Magic! That will be the strongest build EVER!

[@DrSamGalactic]

Imagine getting a huge mana pool as your only hit points and then running into a mana siphon rare :D

[@Frubeling]

CI, MoM and Whispers of Doom I think are it for me as I'm gonna be punching curses onto monsters

[@Sherudons]

I'm more wondering about the potential of caster two handers existing... been waiting on monkey grip for a while though. Amulet slot being lost isn't all that bad for minions dependant on if +1+1 level mods are gone or still in this game.

[@cathexiad7729]

Giant's blood specifies weapon type, not staves unfortunately, can't be Gandalf

[@Sherudons]

@cathexiad7729 there are mage and minion weapons in poe like queens gambit, nothing to say caster uniques or mods won't be on other swords axes etc

[@y_rnd]

16:08 so if I get this right, it means that the amount of ES that will be converted into mana will only come from base gear defences ? And how can we precisely know how this works with CI, since we maybe won't be able to see the amount of ES contained in our character's mana pool. Will CI calculate all mana as energy shield (in which case we only need to care about mana scaling as Dreamcore suggests), or will we die as soon as the actual portion of ES is depleted, regardless of the remaining mana pool? Sorry if my english is unclear.

[@Torguemada]

If we have Queen's Decree(or an unique similar to it) in POE2 i will definedly find a way to use "Giants blood" on my Witch.

[@travissullivan6575]

That's sad about Giant's Blood. Was hoping to DW staffs lol

[@mishli7670]

I wanted to use spear and shield QQ

[@monosophy691]

​@@mishli7670 From what I understand, spears are a one-handed weapon type which you cannot dual wield, and can be used with a shield; regardless of their actual mechanics theyve shown gameplay footage of spear + shield use and so thats probably something that is possible to do somehow.

[@mishli7670]

@@monosophy691 I missed that, thanks!

[@amitfrishberg5863]

Life + str stacking giant blood warrior. count me in!!!

[@progoldfish7441]

Zealots oath is so freakin good now.

[@xTomi123]

iplan playing chayula monk with instant mana and energy leech, using CI and Eternal Youth

[@IllNacs]

how will avatar of fire work with things like decay support (i dont know if its in poe2 but there has to be something similar)

[@Jaruppo]

Given the wording, I think acrobatics should also allow you to avoid spell hits, along with aoe hits, no?

[@dreamcore_gg]

Monsters don't have spell or attack categorisation in PoE2 for the purpose of player defences - you can already evade all monster projectiles or strikes without the keystone, and with the keystone you can also evade AoE hits

[@MelinaTheMad]

In PoE 2 there is no longer any difference between monster spells and monster attacks, at least when it comes to defences. This means that evasion will work against spell hits by default.

[@Jaruppo]

Oh my, high evasion builds will be amazing!

[@FalleNDragonn]

Acrobatics, but i'm a armour or es build is a nice choice? Im new

[@mishli7670]

​​​@@FalleNDragonngenerally you only want to take acrobatics if you have a pretty high amount of evasion. If you are focusing on armor/energy shield, it's probably not worth the points to get on the tree. If you are armor+evasion, or evasion+energy shield, there are some cases, like he said, possibly better on bosses for the chance to dodge the big slams, but otherwise you will be evading everything else half as much

[@TheLukeSchnabel]

Alright, just imagine it… dual wielding two handers as a boneshatter flicker strike strength stacker titan!

[@beasthaven1571]

😅 two duel hands sound insane but terrified if that’s allowed just how much damage does these bosses need to take down for us to get that boost!

[@Sorain1]

Honestly I think I'd be more interested in a 2 hander and shield, if only because there is likely to be some broken combo doable only that way.

[@TheLukeSchnabel]

@ yeah I have since changed my opinion to match yours in the last couple days

[@beasthaven1571]

@@TheLukeSchnabel it also makes me excited, the siris fight on his release was insane and fun

[@FlareFluff]

Sounds like forshadowing for stun threshold is instead an armor multiplier at half efficency

[@winnugami]

I wonder if you took blood magic combined with the blood witch ability that made your spells cost health if you would double the health cost, as one makes it cost health equal to your mana and the other changes the mana cost into a health cost

[@Tibasu]

CI+MOM sounds like what I want to do for a second character. Run around with a single point of life but a massive mana pool. Just gotta see how high the numbers can scale

[@toukoenriaze9870]

if you did CI + MoM you would be stunned on litterally every hit

[@abysmalblade]

I wonder if Unwavering Stance will disable things that convert your dodge roll such as from Sands of Silk

[@csfelfoldi]

Strength keystones seem way stronger than the others, or better said the downsides are less annoying.

[@123darkdeal]

I keep hearing both versions of Eldritch Battery. There was a video recently that said the "converts to mana" is an old version that isn't going to be in the EA. Which is correct?

[@falsnamae3511]

In theory, and in practice, GGG are working on the game right up until, and even past, the beta launch. All these things are mutable, they can and will change over time, and that time could be this current week. Both are simultaneously correct and incorrect.

[@123darkdeal]

@@falsnamae3511 Blast! Schrodinger strikes again.

[@impo997]

do you have any information on what snap said about eldritch battery? it was apparently changed after the november event

[@doicaini7734]

Dual wielding sarforge? Count me in

[@frosty7832]

Any thoughts on this combo? haven't played the first game. eldritch battery: converts all energy shield to mana. eternal youth: life recharges instead of energy shield, life recovery from flasks applies to shield instead. zealot's oath: excess life recovery from regeneration is applied to energy shield, energy shield does not recharge. gets hp regen, when full hp you regenerate shield (mana), health flasks regenerates mana (and so do mana flasks). you could even add 'mind over matter' to change it to a more tanky build and make it so your mana takes dmg before you do and because both your flasks give mana; the 50% mana regen reduction doesn't seem like too big a problem .

[@BlurredVision18]

I thought the same, but when you take EB Energy Shield cease to exist, I would be surprised if excess recovery from Zealot's Oath starts regening mana.

[@Aubee89]

1h mace, scepter, warbringer that sheds armor with sunder totem and has 10 zombies LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@masta4k]

Farewell low life pain attunement assassin power charge stacker, gonna miss ya 😢

[@danielmeagher9007]

is there a way to look at the skill tree before EA?

[@mishli7670]

Not yet at least

[@SpudNug69]

does anyone know when/if we will gain access to the skill tree before release?

[@mishli7670]

I'm hoping so in the next 2/3 days But it's possible they don't publish it before EA starts

[@Ambander-p3x]

Permanent minions all have an active ability you can use. So we dont really know if Conduit is useful or not for summoners, there may very well be minions that can consume Charges to hit harder.

[@cyruslupercal9493]

So far, we haven't seen such a thing. Maybe some enemies that you bind as spectres.

[@Ambander-p3x]

@@cyruslupercal9493 You are literally just repeating what I said. I specifically said MAYBE some minions active ability uses Charges.

[@adnanreddy1616]

Does dexterity still give evasion? Because being able to choose dexterity on attribute nodes and take Iron Reflexes seems good

[@Scorptice]

MoM CI EB is going to be meta

[@Ambander-p3x]

Is the active block bar that fills when blocking your Stun Threshold? Or a separate stamina bar mechanics? If its your Stun Threshold then Unwavering Stance buffs your active block.

[@BackyardPvP]

thanks i made it through...👍

[@border7677]

Necromantic Talisman sounds so fuking cool

[@esvban]

does stun threshold increase your stamina for block?

[@sandorjanospapp3127]

i hope so

[@Вьлпьдв]

It should, otherwise no reason to invest in it

[@SpecShadow]

Giant's Blood = we play Dark Souls/Elden Ring in PoE 2

[@thephilosopher7173]

I know the game is free but is tuition for the university course free as well?

[@beasthaven1571]

Yep ZiggyD would have you covered

[@paulc5389]

I believe Eldrich Battery was changed back? No unwavering stance to mitigate stuns going CI and MoM?

[@Divecrown]

I wonder how Mind over matter works with the Infernalist ascendancy 🤔

[@sodlock4666]

Wow a lot of keystones have changed

[@floorpizza8074]

Would Pain Attunement synergize with Chaos Inoculation? Since CI takes you down to one life, it seems like PA would then always be giving you the low life 30% More Critical Damage Bonus.

[@246Rennie]

How would glancing blow whit the Merit of service shield? it as the mod "Allies in your presence have block equal to yours", they would get your full doubled block chance but would still block 100% of the damage?

[@ericwolfley9929]

I may be wrong but shockwave totem doesn't appear to require a mace to use

[@strangepippis]

Correct

[@ericwolfley9929]

@strangepippis my though was ancestral bond scepter with a shield use jagged ground support on a shield skill let shockwave totems go ham

[@celuiquipeut6527]

Do we still have " +% damage to minion is applied to you" ?

[@Вьлпьдв]

What?

[@jjcho5617]

Without the worry of auras reserving life I feel like there's no real reason to NOT use blood magic unless your build has anything scaling with mana.

[@Ambander-p3x]

Do dual wielded weapons have to be of the same weapon type?

[@rainmaker6456]

Im so confused, I have been trying to find out archers get their mounted combat perk as showed in the ranger combat teaser but no one seems to display where it is or how to get it.

[@sombrego2260]

The meme intros are cute and funny. They are still unnecessary but still very appreciated.

[@tomelias2679]

Ancestral Bond - you can still deal damage yourself. in POE1 just the totems. but i didn't see "spell totem support" in any of the leaks, i hope it makes it in! also, where is returning projectiles support? and ballista totem? i would still want a ballista totem deadeye build with all elemental dmg and returning proj

[@SilentderLaute]

Do we have more Information how Poison work? Will it's damage only scale with Physical/Chaos Damage dealt? How much damage of the main Hit will convert to Poison Damage? So many questions xD

[@After7days]

ty

[@GGxQuinn]

Why would you need 800 str, the highest mace str req is like 220 so it would be 440? Or do you need to have str for each one

[@kerogre256]

Look like Heartstopper will be very good with that one skill that prevent take any damage from ground effects for one second ?