Every time your character levels up in Path of Exile 2, you'll get a passive skill point. Based on the class you start with, you'll have a predetermined starting point in the massive passive skill tree, but from there, you're free to build in any direction you want.
Each character has a max level, meaning there are only so many passive skill points you can get through leveling up. That being said, there are other methods for getting passive skill points that will help you get stronger much faster if you know what to do.
How To Get More Passive Skill Points In Path of Exile 2
Aside from leveling up, you can oftentimes get more passive skill points by using Quest items, which appear with a green name on the ground and while in your inventory. As the name would imply, quest items are oftentimes rewards for completing main quests and side quests for the NPCs found in the HUBs of each Act. Not every quest will reward a quest item that gives passive skills, so there's another method to get additional quest items.
When looking at the Act map, you'll see skull icons around various areas. These skull icons indicate a boss that can be found while exploring an Instance in that area. Some of the skull icons will have a plus icon next to them, indicating that the boss will drop some sort of Quest item whenever they are defeated. With Instances being randomly generated, finding these bosses will require a bit of exploration. No matter what the Quest items give, it will be a permanent buff to your character, with many of them being additional passive skill points.
Quest items must be used in the inventory after being picked up to actually get the passive skill points.
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Tips For Leveling Up In Path of Exile 2
Your main method for getting passive skill points will be leveling up, and the bosses found while exploring will offer decent sums of XP and help you level up quickly. A useful tip is to always create new Instances when exploring a new area, as this will respawn the strongest monsters of that area letting you fight them again for the most XP. Outside of bosses, simply follow the main storyline to unlock later areas that are more challenging but offer more XP, as there's no simple way to farm XP other than fighting the strongest monsters you can find.
Path of Exile II
- Released
- December 6, 2024
WHERE TO PLAY
- ESRB
- Mature 17+ / Blood and Gore, Nudity, Intense Violence, Sexual Themes, Language, Users Interact, In-Game Purchases (Includes Random Items)
- Developer(s)
- Grinding Gear Games
- Publisher(s)
- Grinding Gear Games
- Engine
- Proprietary Engine
- Multiplayer
- Online Multiplayer, Online Co-Op
- Franchise
- Path of Exile
- Early Access Release
- December 6, 2024
- Platform(s)
- PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, PC
- Genre(s)
- Action RPG, Hack and Slash, MMORPG
