Path of Exile – Fast Levelling Guide (1-100 Lvl)

Simple tips to level up fast for every level range.

How to Levelling Fast

From Level 01-30

• Kill only blue and massive packs while looting everything and selling what you don’t need so you can buy better gear.
• Rush through story by skipping all side quests except quicksilver flask quest that way you save tens of hours.
• Never stop running, kill everything in your way by rushing fast don’t stop just keep moving.
• Movement speed is the most important aspect to XP fast.

From Level 30-60

• That’s when you got to start being careful by using a more useful build depending on your class.
• You have to be careful with who you kill now, if you have a strong build you can kill any decent pack in 1 to 3 shots and if you couldn’t do that just keep running and farm as much XP as you can.
• If you ever feel low in power you can just go back and farm passive points which would boost your power much more.
• Always try to stay a couple levels under the zone level in 1-60. If you need to grind XP do it in the highest possible of one of the following zones: ledge, riverways, city of sarn, docks, dried lake.
• Movement speed is the most important aspect to XP fast.

From Level 60-75

• This is where it get’s easier since the dried lake opens up, you instantly start farming in dried lake which will boost your XP a lot and easily.
• Except on day 1 in a new league where you get stuck if you don’t immediately start building a map pool.
• The Dried Lake is an area in Act 4. It has no waypoint and is connected to Highgate. It is the first area players will enter after reaching Highgate in order to kill Voll, Emperor of Purity. Upon entering for the first time, the player’s character will make a comment on it.
• Movement speed is the most important aspect to XP fast.

From Level 75-90

• Straight forward and fastest way.
• Map anything.
• Running your highest non-red map you can afford to roll.
• Movement speed is the most important aspect to XP fast.

From Level 90-100

• First, try to build a high map pool and farm mad currency.
• Second, Buy t12-14s constantly and run them non-stop. If you have a very fast clearing setup (e.g. bower + support) you will get similar XP in gorge, canyon (yes, a 75 map is competitive in XP with an 80 map even at level 99, just because you kill so much at once), arid lake and plateau.
• This stage costs a lot of currency and you will pull your hairs out if you ever end up dying.
• This is where all the stuff that you farmed and don’t use get sold and used here.
• Movement speed is the most important aspect to XP fast.

General Tips

Getting through the game quickly is about many small things that save time:

• Skip unnecessary quests until later. This lets you focus on what’s important right now.
• Take the fastest route through areas you have to visit. Learn the layout of each zone, including where exits and important spots are. This way, you don’t waste time going in circles.
• Choose your skills and gear to kill enemies fast. You want to take out normal enemies in one hit, tougher ones in two or three hits, and defeat bosses quickly.
• For some bosses, it’s faster to have a stronger character help you beat them.
• Don’t spend too much time in towns or your hideout. Avoid looking at items, skills, or talking to characters for too long. Plan your skill choices ahead of time so you can just follow your plan.
• Know when you can get certain skill gems and support gems. Learn when to start using them. This helps you get stronger at the right times.
• Make sure your character is ready for each new area. Keep your resistances, stats, mana, and health high enough for the gear you’re using and the zones you’re in.
• Don’t pick up items that won’t help you. If you can’t sell it and it’s not better than what you have, leave it behind. This saves more time than you might think.
• Play with a group of people. This can make things go much faster.
• All these small time-savers add up. They can save you 15 to 45 minutes by the end of the game.

Things I Wish I Knew Sooner

You can bypass vendor dialog by using ctrl+left click or alt+left click on them. Both will load a different option from the vendor.

• The waypoints in town do not need to be touched, they unlock as soon as you enter town.
• The first waypoint of every act is unlocked once you kill the previous act’s last boss.
• If you log out to character selection and load back in, you will be back in town. Can be useful for saving portal scrolls during acts.
• Any time you sell anything to an npc, what you get back is dictated by vendor recipes.
• On a cluster jewel, only the jewel sockets cost points to refund. The normal nodes and notables are free to refund.
• You can bind a hotkey to open Town portal (as long as you have a portal scroll in inventory).
• Your default attack is bound to left click by default. This causes you to stay still and attack monsters randomly while walking because you are clicking on them. It’s recommended to set your left click to “Move only”.
• Many skills will feel clunky until you tick the “always attack without moving” box on the skill. (note this might brick some movement skills).

Path of Building (PoB) supports copy pasting items. You can ctrl+c on the item in game then ctrl+v into the item section of PoB to load just that item. You can do a similar thing with trade. Every listing on the trade site has a + icon in the bottom left corner. Clicking that copies the item which can then be pasted into PoB.

In the atlas, if you want to change all 12 of your favorited maps, you just need to unclick one map in your favorited slot, and then click the map you want to favorite and just copy click the map in that slot to the rest of the favorited slots.

On the trade site, if you add a ~ in front of your search, it will now look for what you type anywhere in the mod instead of needing the exact wording of the mod. If you look up and use the fuzzy search browser extension, it will automatically add the ~ out front for you every time (there is no downside to running every search with it).

Pressing Z toggles nameplates of items and interactable game objects. Toggling it off may make you miss item drops. It’s recommended to keep nameplates on. Pro tip: Item nameplates may not represent the position of the item if too many items are at the screen at once. Pressing Z twice rearranges them.

You can use chat commands to move to different zones in the game. While in town, if you type:

/hideout

You will go straight to your hideout. Each leagues new zone can also be accessed this way. For settler’s league for example, you can type

/kingsmarch

While in town or hideout to go straight to kingsmarch.

You can also use chat commands to log out to character select. If you type:

/exit

You will be brought back to character select (you will see this used commonly in hardcore to avoid dying). All of these can also be macroed (sending chat is 1 server action so does not break the rules). Tools like Awakened PoE Trade or PoE Trades companion have built in macro functionality you can use for this.

Affixes and Crafting Bench

The way mods work on items: there are implicit and explicit mods.

Implicit is a mod all items of the same base have:

• Example: +20-30 maximum life on all Coral rings.

Explicit mods are the ones that can be random:

• You can hold ALT to show more mod info, and this will also tell you if the mods are prefix or suffix.

Normal (white) items have none.

Magic (blue) items can have 2 mods. 1 prefix and 1 suffix.

• You can see this directly in the name of the item.
• Example: a magic flask:
  • Bountiful Divine Life Flask of Warding
  • Bountiful is prefix: +# to Maximum Charges
  • Warding is suffix: Removes Curses on use

Rare (yellow) items can have 6 mods. 3 prefix, 3 suffix.

• Names are randomly generated so you can’t tell at a glance(unless you know what mods are what category).

Crafting Bench:

• Unlocked in act2, you can find it in hideout.
• If there is an open slot on an item, like rare item with only 2 prefixes. You can use the bench to craft 1 mod on the item.
• By default, there can be max 1 crafted mod on an item, and they can’t bypass the max limits of the rarity.

Completed the Acts, What Now?

Congratulations on completing the campaign for path of exile, after completing the acts you must be confused on what to do and how to go on about it. After campaign your main focus should be on the atlas tree and completing your maps:

How do I complete a map?

You can complete a map by completing its bonus objective which results in you getting 1 atlas passive point per map(115 in total). You can also check a maps bonus objective by holding alt while highlighting the map with your cursor. You should also focus on getting scuffed gears so you can start mapping smoothly.

What are scuffed gears? And how do I buy them?

Read this guide. You should also get some chaos orbs with the chaos recipe to allow you to buy scuffed gears. (Note: chaos recipe should only be done if you have no currency and cannot do maps yet, as it is slow compared to currency farming through league mechanics).

Resistances Help

Elemental resistances are a critical part of your character’s survivability.

From act 5 onwards enemy damage is balanced around your elemental resistances being capped (75%). If you have 50% resistance instead you’ll take double the damage of someone with 75%, so doing your best to cap your elemental resistances is vital.

You receive a 30% penalty to all resistances at the end of act 5, and lose another 30% at the end of act 10.

Chaos resistance can be ignored while in campaign, but rises in relevancy the further you get to end game. Getting above 0% for maps is a good idea.

I appreciate your time and hope this little tutorial was helpful.