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When you enter Path of Exile 2 Early Access, you will find that there are many items for you to search and use, from a dozen different currencies to hundreds of unique gear, all of which require you to understand their specific effectiveness in order to use them reasonably in your build.

But in fact, understanding and remembering every item in POE 2 is not a simple task, especially for those novice exiles who enter the world of Wraeclast for the first time. Soul Cores are the most typical example.

Since Soul Cores usually appear in the later stages of the campaign, you may not be able to learn more about this item and the guide to farming these Soul Cores in regular exploration. But fortunately, this guide will introduce you to the specific effectiveness of Soul Cores and the specific methods to obtain them in large quantities, which will help you better explore POE 2.

About Soul Cores

Soul Cores are actually a special rune in POE 2. Their usage is almost exactly the same as that of ordinary gear. They are placed in empty gear slots, which will provide some fixed attribute gains for certain items. Of course, it can also be inserted into rune slots, depending on the number of slots provided by your build.

The advice I can give you here is to try to place Soul Cores in rune slots, because for builds that will go through the late campaign, gear that provides solid defense capabilities and gear with strong damage capabilities will be upgraded first, such as spending some POE 2 Exalted Orbs to increase their rarity and affixes, which is likely to result in insufficient gear slots.

Types

There are currently 15 types of Soul Cores in the game, and they all provide different gains to your weapon effects and armor effects. The following is the specific utility of each Soul Core.

• Soul Core of Tacati: It let enemies 15% chance to inflict poison on hit and increase Chaos Resistance 7%.
• Soul Core of Jiquani: It recovers 2% of life on kill, and increases maximum life by 2%.
• Soul Core of Zalatl: It recovers 2% of mana on kill, and increases maximum mana by 2%.
• Soul Core of Citaqualotl: It increases elemental damage dealt by attacks by 30%, and all elemental resistances are increased by 5%.
• Soul Core of Azcapa: It let Spirit increase 15, and increase the rarity of items found by 10%.
• Soul Core of Quipolatl: It let your attack speed increased by 5%, and reduces the Slowing Potency of debuffs applied to you by 10%.
• Soul Core of Opiloti: There is a 15% chance of causing bleeding on hit, and gain 10% more Charm Charges.
• Soul Core of Tzamoto: Your Freeze Buildup increased by 20%, and increases maximum cold resistance by 1%.
• Soul Core of Puhuarte: It increases the chance of ignition by 30%, and increases maximum fire resistance by 1%.
• Soul Core of Xopec: It can increase chance of shocking by 30%, and increases maximum lightning resistance by 1%.
• Soul Core of Topotante: Your attacks with this weapon penetrate 15% elemental resistance, and Elemental Ailment Threshold increased by 15%.
• Soul Core of Ticaba: It increases critical damage bonus by 12%, and critical damage bonuses for attacks against you are reduced by 10%.
• Soul Core of Cholotl: It can convert 20% of your requirements into Dexterity.
• Soul Core of Atmohua: It can convert 20% of your requirements into Strength.
• Soul Core of Zantipi: It can convert 20% of your requirements into Intelligence.

It’s important to note that while Soul Cores are harder to obtain than regular Runes, this doesn’t mean they are rarer or provide more buffs, they just provide more options for adding to gear.

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How To Farm Soul Cores?

Although Soul Cores are a type of Rune in POE 2, they do not drop from normal monsters in the game like regular Runes do. You can only obtain this special rune through Trial of Chaos, Currency Exchange, or Trade.

As you explore this Trial of Chaos, you will have a chance to obtain Soul Cores from each floor you complete. Note that you are guaranteed to get at least one Soul Core per run, regardless of the level of the Inscribed Ultimatum you used to unlock these Trial Rooms.

But make sure you do not fail this Trial run, otherwise all your previous rewards, including experience points, POE 2 Currency, and Soul Cores, will be lost. If you want to avoid this kind of grinding, you can also trade Soul Cores with Alva in your Hideout, but the exact price of each Soul Core is constantly changing.

The last method is to trade with other players. However, based on the current game community and social platforms, the possibility of trading this item is very small. But it does not mean that it does not exist. You can try your luck.

The above are the types of Soul Cores in POE 2 and the specific farming methods. Once again, Soul Cores are just runes with special abilities and are not worth your time and effort to farm, because you can collect a lot of Soul Cores in regular exploration and trials. I hope they can play a significant role in your build, and I wish you a happy game!

The developers of Path of Exile 2 seem to be particularly keen on “randomness”. Equipment drops randomly and the effects of Currency on equipped items are randomly modified. Even some equipment will randomly apply effects to you, such as Ventor’s Gamble Gold Ring. This ring will randomly assign you buffs or even debuffs.

The creators are particularly keen on turning players into gamblers. In POE 2 currency, Chaos Orb, Orb of Chance, and Vaal Orb all have the effect of randomly modifying items. Among them, Vaal Orb is the most unpredictable because it has several effects. Do you know how to use it?

Vaal Orb can be used on different items, such as your equipment, skill gems, Spirit gems and even Waystone. There are some small differences, so I will introduce them separately.

Using Vaal Orb On Items

Using Vaal Orb on an item has 4 results:

• 25%: The item remains the same and nothing happens.
• 25%: Adds a Corruption Affix to the item.
• 25%: Modifies an existing affix.
• 25%: Adds an additional slot to the item.

Although Vaal Orbs have several effects, only one will be active at a time, and there will be no combined effects.

Item Remains The Same

It is not accurate to say that the item remains the same, and it has changed a bit, actually. Although its affixes and slots remain the same, you will find that it has a “Corruption” in its description. This means that you can no longer modify this item with any other POE 2 currency.

Corruption Affix

This is usually a positive effect. Vaal Orbs will add an additional “Corruption Affix” to your equipment. This Corruption Affix comes from the list of Corruption modifiers. Even if your item already has a maximum number of affixes, it will still add an affix to it. This is the only way to get Jewels with 5 modifiers.

Rerolls Affix

This function sounds similar to POE 2 Chaos Orb and Divine Orb, but there are some differences. Vaal Orb can work on magic items, but Chaos Orb cannot work on magic items. Secondly, Vaal Orb can modify the value of item affixes, and even break the upper or lower limit of the value, but Divine Orb cannot break the limit of the item value.

Adds A Slot

Using Vaal Orbs is the only way to get multiple slots for your weapons and armor. Vaal Orb can break the upper limit of item slots. Even the body armor Morior Invictus Grand Regalia, which has a maximum of 4 slots, can get a fifth slot under the influence of Vaal Orb.

However, this effect of Vaal Orbs can only work on items with slots. If it is an item without slots such as amulets, rings, belts, flasks and rings, Vaal Orbs cannot make sockets for them.

Also Read: Path Of Exile 2 Unique Jewels: How To Get All Of These Items?

Using Vaal Orbs On Skill Gems Or Spirit Gems

Vaal Orbs can have an effect on both Spirit Gems and Skill Gems.

• 12.5%: Gem level up.
• 12.5%: Gem level down.
• 12.5%: Gain a socket.
• 12.5%: Lose a socket.
• 25%: Quality loss or increase by 2-10%.
• 25%: No change.

Using Vaal Orbs on Spirit Gems and Skill Gems can make them gain 4 or even 5 sockets, or make a level 20 skill gem go to level 21. The chance of gaining an extra socket is only 12.5%, which is relatively low. Unless you have several multi-socket skill gems, it is not recommended to gamble with Vaal Orb.

In addition, if Vaal Orbs are corrupted, Spirit Gems and Skill Gems can still be upgraded, but their quality can no longer be increased.

Using Vaal Orbs On Waystone (Map)

Waystones are usually very suitable for using Vaal Orb. Once your character is strong enough to defeat Corruption map, you should use Vaal Orb on Waystones frequently.

• 25%: No change (Waystone becomes Corrupted).
• 25%: Waystone may go up or down 1 level. This usually changes the modifiers of Waystone.
• 12.5%: Remove all prefixes from Waystone and add a suffix for each removed prefix, breaking the 1 or 3 suffix limit.
• 12.5%: Remove all suffixes from Waystone and add a prefix for each removed suffix, breaking the 1 or 3 prefix limit.
• 25%: Add additional modifiers to Waystone, breaking the prefix and suffix limit. This method has a chance to create the best Waystone.

Vaal Orbs work very well with Waystones, because the only negative effect is that Waystone’s level is reduced by one level. Except for no change, all other effects can add a certain amount of bonus to Waystone, so the overall risk is low, and the reward is high.

Omen Of Corruption

Vaal Orbs have a 1 in 4 chance of doing nothing for each item, which is really annoying. Omen of Corruption is Omen for Vaal Orbs, which can remove the “nothing happens” effect of Vaal Orb, making you more likely to trigger other effects, but also more risky.

Vaal Orbs are a double-edged sword, which can either make your equipment break the upper limit or make your equipment worthless. Perhaps only the most crazy gamblers will happily use Vaal Orb as a necessity for crafting equipment.

As we all know, some unique items in Path Of Exile 2 can help build a better build, while others can ruin the build. Astramentis Stellar Amulet belongs to the former type, and it can be the best partner for the player’s build.

Compared with the original game, POE 2 has made great changes in some gameplay. For example, although the enemy density in a certain area has become lower, the enemy’s ability is stronger and the health is higher.

This change means that it is more difficult for players to kill enemies during the game. Therefore, Exalted Orb becomes very valuable in POE 2 because it can enhance the power of equipment and kill enemies better. From this aspect, POE 2 is more like a Soulslike, because it fits the characteristics of ARPG.

Unique items are rare weapons or equipment with exclusive effects or attribute bonuses. There are more than 100 unique items in the current POE 2 early access version. Of course, as the game is updated, there should be more unique items later.

Although Unique items are scarce as the name suggests, it is worth noting that there are many ways to obtain Unique items, even if you don’t play this game every day. But it is worth noting that since only a small number of items in the current inventory will drop at specific locations, it is difficult for players to farm more Unique items by targeting.

Astramentis Stellar Amulet

As the name suggests, it is a Unique Amulet in POE 2. There are many types of Amulets in POE 2, and each Amulets will achieve different benefits for different builds of players.

For example, if the player chooses the character of Witch, then its best build is to choose Solar Amulets. Because these Amulets will enhance the Spirit attribute of Witch, it can help players enhance the summoning of minions to achieve the purpose of protecting the witch from casting spells.

And Stellar Amulets can enhance every attribute of the character. These include Melee Physical Damage, Accuracy, Evasion, Energy Shield and Mana, and these attributes can be enhanced to better protect life.

Astramentis can take the color attribute to another level, because the item will increase the base value of each attribute by 5-7, and will also enhance the character’s unique effect by 80-100. In addition, Astramentis can also reduce the player’s physical damage by four times to achieve a small defense gain.

Judging from the special effects of the above item, Astramentis can meet the player’s requirements for various attributes of equipment, and can also add as many attribute threshold gain effects as possible to the player’s character attributes.

How To Get It?

If players want to get Astramentis, the most consistent way is to use Orbs of Chance. Players can find Chance Shards in random drops and get Orbs of Chance by collecting 10 Chance Shards or trading with Currency Exchange.

In addition, Orbs of Chance can also be used for Normal items, either upgrading them to Unique items or destroying them. If the player has Stellar Amulet of the normal rarity, then you have the opportunity to upgrade it to Astramentis.

In addition, there is another inconsistent way to get the item, which is gambling or random drops. However, this method is very test of the player’s luck, because Astramentis will be drawn from the same prize pool as other Unique items.

Therefore, if players want to get the item faster and more directly, they can consider the first method. Because it is currently the only two Unique Stellar Amulets in POE 2. The other is Fixation of Yix Stellar Amulet, which is more friendly to Minion builds.

In general, Astramentis is worth having because it is a universal Unique in the Amulet slot, unless you want to make a specific build. Although the way to get it will be more difficult, it can help your character build to a better level. Therefore, it is recommended that players try to get it.

The above is the best way to get Astramentis Stellar Amulet, and it is recommended that you don’t miss it.

Ingenuity Utility Belt is a very practical piece of equipment that players can use in many builds. However, it is not easy to get such a belt. In general, players can only get this belt in the endgame. Of course, if you are a rich man with a backpack full of various currencies, that is another matter. This belt can also be obtained through trading between players.

Ingenuity Utility Belt

As a Unique Belt, Ingenuity Utility Belt is very powerful and can provide survival protection for players. Here are the functions of this belt:

• Increases Flask Recovery by 20%.
• Increases the bonuses gained from equipping a ring by 40% to 80%

You can see that this belt can bring a terrifying improvement to the player. It can greatly increase the effect of the ring carried by the player. However, the player needs to reach level 55 to equip it.

How To Get Ingenuity Utility Belt?

To get Ingenuity Utility Belt, you need to go to the endgame, participate in Ritual activity, and defeat the final boss, The King of the Mists. Ingenuity Utility Belt is one of the unique drops of The King of the Mists.

However, Ingenuity Utility Belt does not necessarily appear after you fight The King of the Mists. The King of the Mists has about five unique drops, and this belt is just one of them. That means you may need to fight four or five times before you can get this belt.

Here are its five unique drops:

• The Burden of Shadows
• Beetlebit
• From Nothing
• Pragmatism
• Ingenuity Utility Belt

As one of the final bosses of the endgame, The King of the Mists is very powerful. To increase the drop of items, you need to challenge The King of the Mists with a higher difficulty. However, the annoying thing is that many of The King of the Mists’ AOE attacks can kill most builds instantly. However, most of The King of the Mists’ attacks are very similar to the King in the Mists in Freythorn in Act I. As long as you go back to Act I and practice against the King in the Mists in Freythorn a few times, you will soon become familiar with this boss.

An Audience With The King

An Audience With the King is a must-have item for players to challenge The King of the Mists. Players can obtain it by playing Ritual. However, this item does not appear very frequently in Ritual maps as Ritual favors, and in order to redeem An Audience With the King, players need to offer 2,700 to 3,900 Tributes to the altar, which means that this item is very rare. If you don’t have enough Tributes for this time being, you can click the Defer button at the bottom of the Favours menu. In this way, the requirement of An Audience With the King will be retained in the altar. After you have cleared 3 or 4 Ritual maps, you can find An Audience With the King again, and it will still be the same requirement as last time. If you still don’t have enough Ritual favors, keep clicking Defer until you can redeem it.

Ingenuity Utility Belt is not very rare in the drops of The King of the Mists, but it is troublesome to start the King of the Mists boss fight.

Another way is to exchange between players. You can choose the in-game Currency Exchange or the out-of-game Trade Site. Generally speaking, Currency Exchange is the most reliable, but you need to prepare a lot of POE 2 Currency. Trade Site is a little unreliable, but they generally require less currency than Currency Exchange.

Normally, players need to provide 4 to 7 Divine Orbs to exchange An Audience With the King.

If you have obtained An Audience With the King, but are not ready to face The King of the Mists. You can ask other players for help. You may need to provide 2 Divine Orbs in exchange for them to help you pass The King of the Mists Boss fight.

Orb Of Chance

Don’t get me wrong, this does not mean that Orb of Chance can transform belts into Ingenuity Utility Belts.

Orb of Chance can randomly transform ordinary items into rare items, magic items or unique items. Its effect is very powerful, and Ingenuity Utility Belt is indeed a unique item, but Orb Of Chance doesn’t work. Orb of Chance currently cannot transform ordinary belts into Ingenuity Utility Belts. Please don’t try this.

Ingenuity Utility Belt is not a regular loot, it is a unique drop from The King of the Mists, and there is no other way to get it except from Boss battle drops and player exchange, so don’t try to use Orb of Chance to gamble on Ingenuity.

The above is how to get Ingenuity Utility Belt. It is not an easy task to get this unique equipment, but its effect is worth the effort of the players. If you need this belt to enhance your build, you better be prepared.