Although only 6 classes are available in the current early access of POE 2, it has already brought a lot of fun to players. Each class has different gameplay ideas and build cores, and there are two ascendancy subclasses for players to upgrade their character build, which makes players feel a little tricky about how to grow their characters, but also makes players addicted.

After a period of testing, players have experienced the differences between different classes. Some classes are easy to operate at the beginning, but become very complicated after the character build matures. Some classes require very complicated operations at the beginning, and require a lot of POE 2 Currency to build equipment and adjust skill gems, but after the character build matures, they will become very powerful.

So for players, how difficult are these six classes in the game?

Sorceress

Sorceress is a traditional caster class. Compared with other classes, Sorceress sacrifices its physical defense in exchange for high elemental damage. As a spellcaster, Sorceress can destroy enemies with lightning from a distance, thus preventing herself from being emptied of health by monsters approaching her. In the mid-to-late game, players who want to ensure survival can also invest skill points in the passive skill energy shield.

Sorceress’s main means of dealing damage are stacking lightning damage, shock, and electrocute. Sorceress has AOE means to deal with multiple enemies, and can also deal a lot of damage to a single enemy. But note that Sorceress deals spell damage, not attack damage. So when choosing affixes, don’t choose affixes that increase attack damage, even if there is an affix that increases elemental damage caused by attack, don’t choose it, it’s useless for Sorceress.

In the later stage of the game, Sorceress can also increase her elemental damage through buff gems, and can also enhance her lightning elemental damage through Stormweaver ascendancy. The energy shield will also be greatly enhanced to ensure Sorceress’s survivability. For most players, Sorceress may be the simplest class.

Ranger

Ranger is in a similar situation to Sorceress in the early stage. Both can cause a lot of damage at a distance, and their defense in close combat is relatively weak. However, in actual operation, Ranger is much more complicated than Sorceress. Ranger is a character with good damage and a high upper limit, and it also requires the player to grasp the opportunity and have the awareness to avoid danger.

Ranger has strong mobility and skills that can control the enemy. Ranger has AOE skills that can cause poison and lightning and also has skills such as Escape Shot and Freezing Salvo to escape or control the enemy. This allows Ranger to have a lot of time to cause damage to the enemy.

However, compared with Sorceress, Ranger’s survivability is much worse. His main way to avoid damage is to dodge. This requires players to be able to observe the movements of Boss and the composition of the monsters, and keep attacking while moving, which is still difficult for some players.

Witch

The style of Witch character is more like a summoner, and her advantages and disadvantages are obvious. Witch seems to be at ease when facing ordinary monsters on the map. Her army of summons blocks the monsters’ path, and she can stand in a safe place to attack the monsters. But when Witch faces the boss, the power of her summons is greatly reduced.

This situation will not improve until the mid-game, when Witch obtains the ascendancy class. Many Witch players will choose Infernalist, because it allows Witch to obtain a powerful demon form. This form allows Witch to have the power to protect herself without the protection of summons, and the Infernalist has Hell Hound minion, which makes Witch’s summons more abundant. In addition, another supplement to Witch’s survivability is the energy shield, which can avoid falling into an embarrassing situation immediately after the death of the minion.

Mercenary

Mercenary is similar to Ranger in terms of output method. They both use elements and poison to attack the enemy at a certain distance, but Mercenary does not have the mobility of Ranger, but has stronger survivability.

Mercenary’s health and armor are better than Ranger, and it also has more ammunition options. Mercenary needs to switch the arrows and ammunition loaded in the crossbow according to the situation during the battle. He can also choose to use Permafrost Bolts to freeze the enemy at a long distance and use Fragmentation Rounds to cause heavy damage to the enemy at close range. At the same time, he can also use Grenades with poison gas to cause large-scale damage to the enemy.

Although Mercenary has a variety of attack methods, he is not top-notch in defense and still needs to keep a certain distance from the enemy. This requires players to maintain a balance between Mercenary’s damage ability and survivability in the build of Mercenary. Players can choose to use POE 2 Chaos Orb to replace the equipment’s attributes with defensive attributes, to allocate skill points to offense.

Warrior

Warriors seem to be a relatively common class in other action games. They have good performance in both output means and survival. Although they are not too strong, they are enough for novices to survive smoothly in the early stage.

However, the melee mechanism of Path of Exile 2 makes warriors unable to face various situations calmly. Warriors can choose to improve their armor or increase their strength to increase their health and enhance their survivability. However, the boss of POE 2 will not allow warriors to withstand its attacks and cause damage. This game encourages players to dodge.

Warriors have a very eye-catching performance when dealing with single enemies. In other words, they are good at dealing with bosses. But he will have a hard time dealing with grouped enemies, which means that he will be more uncomfortable than other characters in the wild, which is why the difficulty of warriors is higher.

Monk

Monk in Path of Exile 2 is a character that is truly suitable for advanced players. His upper limit is very high and his lower limit is also very low. When players are familiar with monks, he should be the character with the fastest clearance speed. Monk is a melee mage. He not only has strong mobility but also can get close to the enemy to deal elemental damage and control. Many skills of monks rely on energy charging. Energy charges complement the skills of monks and can enhance their output.

The core output method of Monk is relying on Tempest Bell, which allows him to continuously accumulate the power of thunder and lightning to shock opponents in battle. However, if the monk wants to deal with the highest damage, he still relies heavily on Path of Exile 2 Items. A good long staff can double his damage.

Compared with the output of Monk, his survivability is relatively weak. The main attributes of monk are agility and intelligence, which means that he mainly relies on dodge and ability shield to survive in battle. Players need to pay attention to the consumption of energy shields at all times and keep moving in battle.

The above is the difficulty of the six classes in Path of Exile 2 at this stage. Monk is currently the most difficult class, but it is also the most worthwhile class to try. Monk is very dependent on operation in battle, and players can feel a lot of satisfaction after using monk to defeat the boss. There are still six classes in Path of Exile 2 that have not been opened. The monk may not be the most difficult character. Let us look forward to the changes that the subsequent updates of POE 2 will bring to players.