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In Path of Exile 2, Ascendancy class can greatly improve your character. To upgrade your class to the Ascendancy class, you need to clear the trials in the game.

There are currently two trials in the game. Trial of the Sekhemas is the trial that players encounter in Act 2. This trial is very difficult, so players should understand its mechanics in advance.

Honour

When you enter Trial of the Sekhemas, you will have an additional attribute, Honour. In short, Honour is like another health bar for you. When you are hit by monsters or encounter traps in the trial, you will lose a little honor. However, unlike the health bar, Honour cannot be restored by flasks. You can only restore Honour in Fountain rooms.

The value of Honour is basically the sum of your maximum health plus your energy shield value. When your Honour is completely emptied, you have failed the trial.

Sacred Water

Sacred Water is a special POE 2 currency in Trial of the Sekhemas that disappears when you leave the Trial. They are light blue drops that automatically go into your inventory when you approach them.

You can trade Sacred Water with merchants for relics, favors, or to restore Honour. You can trade Sacred Water for Keth Forge keys after defeating a boss.

Keys

There are three types of keys in Trial of the Sekhemas: Bronze Key, Silver Key, and Gold Key. You can get keys from monsters and bosses, or from treasure chests in various rooms. You can also trade them with Keth Forge.

Keys are used to open respective caches at the end of the Trial. These respective caches can contain equipment, jewellery, and currency items similar to POE 2 Exalted Orb.

Boon

Boons are divided into major boons and minor boons. They can provide you with various buffs, such as reducing monster damage, restoring Honour, disabling traps, etc. A good favor can be a big help in a Trial.

Affliction

Afflictions are divided into major and minor afflictions. Afflictions are essentially debuffs. Afflictions can make your Trial more difficult. There are many types of Afflictions, which can weaken your defense, greatly increase trap damage, and prevent you from getting Boon.

Pledges

You can make Pledges to Kochai the Inscrutablel at the Shrine. Kochai will let you choose one of three Pledges. These Pledges can be good or bad. These Pledges can give you Boon, but at the cost of a large amount of Honour. Or they can give you both Affliction and Boon.

Traps

There are 11 traps in the Trial. Affected by a trap, you will lose both health and Honour. Most traps can be avoided by you as long as you move fast enough.

The above is a brief introduction to Trial of the Sekhemas. I hope it can be helpful to players participating in the trial.

As a novice player of Path of Exile 2, you may not know about a speechless incident that happened before. Billionaire Elon Musk boasted that he was at the top of the charts of popular games such as POE 2 and D4, but the witty players found out.

As we all know, Elon Musk is the richest man in the world. He has always been the focus of people’s attention. Such a person with his own popularity started a game live broadcast, and everyone watched his live broadcast out of curiosity. However, after watching the live broadcast, it was found that he did not seem to have the ability to obtain a high level of the game.

Live Broadcast

At first, Musk broadcast Path of Exile 2 for an hour and a half, and the hardcore character he used, named Percy_Verence, was level 95. At that time, everyone still felt quite respectful of him. Because in POE 2, it is very remarkable to survive to such a high level in the hardcore league.

As a novice player, you may not know much about the game mechanics. Let me briefly introduce it. In the hardcore league, the difficulty will increase as the game progresses. It’s already impressive for a player to reach level 80, let alone level 95.

What’s even more impressive is that the character survived without dying once. Generally speaking, players who rank at the top of the hardcore leaderboard have mastered skilled game skills and wise builds matching skills. But disappointingly, Musk does not have these abilities.

When we watched Musk’s live broadcast, we didn’t find any excellent game operation from him. Instead, we found some flaws in his game operation. This is why we suspect that Musk is just putting on a show.

Like A Rookie

During the live broadcast, we found that Musk seemed to be unfamiliar with the basic mechanics of the game like a rookie. He repeatedly tried to enter those inaccessible map nodes and didn’t notice that his mana was empty for a long time.

What’s more surprising is that he neglected to collect valuable Path Of Exile 2 Currency. We all know that collecting currency is crucial to this game. We don’t know why he made such a low-level mistake.

At one point, he picked up low-level keystones that were irrelevant to his character’s level, instead of more valuable currency items like POE 2 Divine Orb. And he also called his perfectly good set of gear low-level gear. All of this shows that his superb gaming skills are fake.

Percy_Verence Died

However, at around 8 am EST on Friday, January 10, 2025, Musk’s in-game character Percy_Verence died at level 97. For your better understanding, let me popularize it for you. In POE 2, hardcore characters can only last until the first death, and then they will be kicked into the standard character pool.

In addition, if these hardcore characters get a ranking of 1000 and above on the global hardcore leaderboard, the leaderboard will track the total experience these hardcore characters have gained. And once they die, it will be announced in the game to all players. Percy_Verence happened to be at level 7 on the global hardcore leaderboard.

What’s more worth mentioning is that within three days after Percy_Verence’s death, it had dropped from level 7 to level 13. Because everyone wants to get a higher ranking on the hardcore leaderboard, the competition is very fierce. Other high-level POE 2 players are competing to surpass each other.

In fact, for experienced POE 2 players with real strength, Musk’s poor performance in the game live broadcast is not convincing, and everyone is questioning the authenticity of his superb game strength. Did he steal other people’s upgraded characters for his own use?

What exciting news! As a long-time fan of Path of Exile 2, the next season update you’ve been waiting for is coming.

Grinding Gear Games has officially announced the name of the season update, Dawn of the Hunt, as well as the official release date for Path of Exile 2 patch 0.2.0. The official release date is April 4, but it will be revealed live on March 27.

New Content

Why is 0.2.0 different from many other patches released before it? Since the release of Path of Exile 2 in Early Access, there have been many patches released. But they are so small, mainly balance fixes and small updates.

But 0.2.0 will bring a lot of new content, including new end-game content, new weapons, new Ascendancy classes, and many new items. And if nothing unexpected happens, you will lose a lot of Path Of Exile 2 Currency to get all this new stuff. It’s a necessary sacrifice.

In addition, if you have been paying attention to its series of trailers in the past month, you may have seen previews of some new unique items, such as Bringer of Rain Helmet and Hammer of Faith two handed weapons. The appearance of these new weapons is bound to create more possibilities for your build, and I guess you can't wait to get them.

However, like before, the drop rate of these unique items may still be very small, and sometimes you may need to kill the most difficult Uber bosses to find them. So if you want to find them as soon as possible after the update, you must be prepared to optimize your equipment, especially by consuming POE 2 Exalted Orbs to re-roll the cooldown recovery on the equipment and modifiers such as mana cost are crucial.

In addition, previews of new auxiliary gems and changes to Passive Skill Tree system have also been released. We also saw the artwork of one of the new Ascendancies, although we don’t know its name at present. What’s more worth mentioning is that a more convenient function has appeared. POE 2 revealed a function that can save different weapon sets to switch between them more easily.

Developer Live

There’s also good news. Grinding Gear Games will be broadcasting live at 3 pm EST on March 27, revealing all the contents of the major update POE 2 0.2.0.

If you don’t have time to watch the live broadcast, it’s possible to watch the replay on Path of Exile Twitch channel. And it will be released on PC and consoles at 3 pm EST on April 4.

Keeping Mystery

You may not know much from the trailer of Path of Exile 2: Dawn of the Hunt, because it retains some mystery and doesn’t reveal much information, but you can extract an important clue from the trailer.

The trailer shows someone sneaking in the woods, probably hunting. And the name of this update is called Dawn of the Hunt, from which we can boldly speculate that the new Ascendancy class may be Druid and Huntress.

Just the trailer can show how important this update is. I dare not imagine how exciting the content of the official release will be. Looking forward to the arrival of the next update.

The most interesting news about POE 2 frontline experience at the moment is probably the 0.2.0 patch that will be released on April 4. The other patches of Path of Exile 2 before this have been aimed at maintaining the stability and balance of the game. As one of the most important patches before the official version is launched, 0.2.0 Dawn of the Hunt is expected to bring many important new content.

But in fact, in addition to these new content, you should also pay attention to the fact that when Dawn of the Hunt is launched, your original POE 2 characters may no longer be used, and you must create new characters from scratch to enter Acts 4 to 6 - you can think of this as an economic reset.

Dawn Of The Hunt Overview

Since its launch on December 6, 2024, Path of Exile 2 early access has only had the “standard” league, rather than a more formal league like the first part. Therefore, the first thing patch 0.2.0 does is to develop a new season or name the existing season (perhaps Dawn of the Hunt). In this way, the sequel will operate closer to POE 1, making the two games more closely connected.

In addition, the new content in this update includes:

• New Ascendancy classes
• New weapons and unique items
• Support gems and skill tree changes
• Weapon set swapping
• Endgame enhancements

The Significance Of Economic Reset

Although the release of patch 0.2.0 will cause you to go through the campaign and character upgrade process again, you have already played again, and in the absence of any existing POE 2 Currency, the plot of the fourth act and more acts is brand new after all, and you can get freshness by exploring it.

In this way, most players, including you, will be more motivated to continue working hard in Dawn of the Hunt, thereby ensuring that the economic development of the updated POE 2 will be better, and can also avoid problems caused by changes in atlas passives and passive skills.

In short, although the economic reset of patch 0.2.0 will increase your workload, it is a necessary step before the official version of Path of Exile 2 is launched, because it can help test whether the new act and other new content are stable. Let us look forward to Dawn of the Hunt on April 4!