Path of Exile Step by Step Build Guide For Beginners

I'm Raxxanterax and I make Build Guides, Leveling Guides, Tier Lists and More for Diablo 4, Last Epoch, Path of Exile and Path of Exile 2. Here is a step by step guide to help players who are new to Path of Exile understand how to follow a POB or build guide. Understand what you're looking for and some overarching ideas makes the POE experience much more enjoyable and lets you spend more time in game slaying monsters. The following links are essential for the build used in the video as well as putting the ideas from this video into action. Big shoutout to “OmgitsVenom” for helping gather questions and talking points for this video.
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Regex For This Build ► "!gen|s rec|r li|m li|tal d|eec|old$|fire$|as l"
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00:00 Introduction
01:50 POB Prep & Loot Filter
03:40 Understand What You're Looking For
18:59 Passives Made Easy
21:28 Ascendancy & Labs
26:39 Hideout, Early Crafting & Gear
38:36 Midgame Build Swap
47:52 Mana Reservation
50:14 Bandits?
51:33 Firestorm Mana Issues
53:05 IDK Where to Go
54:53 Starting Endgame
55:44 Tabs & Affinities
57:00 Mapping & Atlas Tree
01:05:40 Awakened POE Map Filtering
01:13:29 Crafting & Obtaining Your Gear
01:20:09 Wand Crafting Demo
01:30:18 Solving For Bad Items
01:32:09 Ice Nova of Frostbolts Grind
01:34:28 Final Thoughts
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[mikerecoil]

I'm 50 and can't thank you enough. I don't have the energy to look all this stuff up. You would make a great teacher of how easy and calm you explain things.We thank you for always helping us and giving all POE and Diablo updates. I'm looking forward to season 5 and POE 2. This old Man has your back. Keep crushing it buddy!

[NokturnalMTG]

OMG this couldn't have come at a better time. I'm off the next 7 days!! Wanted to try POE after taking a break from last Epoch, thanks Rax!

[tfc]

Took me 5 years to learn on my own what Raxx explains in a 80min YT vid

[HDternity]

Correct Bandit Rewards (50:30)
Kraityn: 8% increased Movement Speed
Alira: +15% to all Elemental Resistances
Oak: +40 to maximum Life
Eramir: 1 Passive Skill Point

Most important takeaway with this one: Use poewiki and not the fandom one.

[evgnius]

So the jokes about needing PhD to play PoE weren't jokes 😢

[seanstrickland]

This is why Raxx is a god!!! This is what makes the aRPG community amazing!!! Thanks mate!

[iRemixy]

Ignore all the hate comments brother. You and DM were my biggest inspirations to actually buckle down and learn the game this league and I’m happy I followed through with it

[basewarrior]

As someone with 4k hours in this game I love what Raxx has done here. This is exactly the kind of hand holding a new player needs to push through the barrier of entry to this amazing game. I wish I had a guide like this when I started as it would have made it a lot easier.

[hallt]

One of the best actual beginner videos I’ve seen. Many of the other ones rely on beginners to understand terminology or concepts we haven’t grasped yet. You break down these things to a very understandable, basic level. Many thanks and a sub to you!

[rockkiller]

Raxx is what got me finally into POE and we all needed these guides. Thank you so much for making these.

[snaqs]

I just typed in Poe guide and u posted this 4 minutes ago that’s so crazy 😂

[BBaham]

I had to go back and watch your last guide when the new season dropped. But I am very happy that you took the time to do another.

[benfox]

Just made it to act 6 today and started to feel really overwhelmed and out of my depth in a humbling way, open youtube to find a guide...this is the top recommended. Perfect.

[praetormaximus]

I probably sound like a loser for saying this but you cannot imagine how much true beginners needed this, sure it started slow but I remember when I started playing this game there was nothing explaining it, and the first few hours playing the game as the most confusing, well, thats a lie, the game never stops getting confusing but its important to create a good base, this makes it easier for us to keep going.

Most "beginners" guides for PoE start promising, like, I am going to show you how to do blights as a beginner, and then proceeds to say things like, grab your map, add this oils, then come here and make sure your veins are clean, activate the towers and make sure this path is blah blah blah, and I am still asking myself, what the hell is an oil? where do I find a map? and how do the mechanics work? where is all that!

so if you see beginners guide in PoE, beginners = 1000 hours of played time... give or take ;) So hard to find real noobie guides here.... thank you so much for this

[Twentyand]

As someone who bounced off PoE a couple times but is following a guide this time like Raxx recommends here is a tip that nobody explains and was not obvious to me...I could just be dumb though too 😄 Youll get to a point in the guide where they have you equipping more skill gems than you have ability slots which really confused me. Took me a minute to realize I could activate things like auras that stay on, then change the ability slot to a different ability entirely. I just assumed if you unequipped an ability it would stop functioning. Hope that helps someone else.

[MaxPalaro]

Thanks for this man! It was helpful. I'm playing while watching you :)

[SimpleEW]

Raxx.. you probably hear it everyday but.. you are amazing man. I’m actually blasting and having so much fun now that I can wrap my head around this game. You’re seriously a great teacher lol

[animiir]

I really want to like the game but after playing the game for abit and listening to all these and there is even other video that I have to go watch to understand specific system is just too much for me, maybe I just not fit for this kind of game.
This game is probably the most complicated game I ever try to play, it feel like system stack on top of another and another and it will probably keep stacking more and more and I am not saying that it is a bad thing ( but it probably is to me alone ) just how can a game be so complicated that it need third party stuff to help keep track of thing.

Maybe I am just too old for this and should just go back to my cornor and play those simple fun game like mhw, elden ring and stuff😢
I have hope for the best for this game and that poe2 will less complicate than this.
Sorry for my english

[ShloppyShmeat]

A quick correction for using chromatic orbs to recolor sockets: the socket color chances aren't based off armor type, they're based off of the items attribute requirements. For example a unique item with the requirements of 100 str, 60 int, and 30 dex would be much more likely to get either red or blue sockets than green.

[tranquero]

Raxx this is an amazing guide and you are awesome at teaching. I have 200 hours on POE but never got the grip on it until now. Also watched the whole 96 minutes and felt like 10.