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Players, after waiting so long for Path of Exile 2 Patch 0.5.0, you'll finally be able to experience it! During the initial exploration phase of the new patch, because of resource and equipment limitations, we must choose suitable builds to progress through the game.

Below, we've listed ten early-game builds that can easily complete the story and advance through early maps, with relatively low equipment requirements:

• Ice Shot Deadeye
• Spirit Walker Twisters
• Grenades and Crossbows Tactician
• Martial Artist
• Lich
• Disciple of Rasha
• Totems build
• Shield Wall Warbringer
• Shaman Bear Druid
• Elementalist Caster

Let's take a closer look at the strengths and gameplay of these builds.

Ice Shot Deadeye

• Core Advantages: Excellent bow gameplay, consistently performing well since Patch 0.1.0, allowing for smooth progression even with low gear requirements.
• Leveling Process: Except for Act 1, which is slightly challenging (a common issue with almost all builds), the story progression is very smooth. Combined with Freezing Salvo, bosses can be easily defeated.

Ice Shot Deadeye is a consistently top-three leveling choice and is highly recommended.

Spirit Walker Twisters

• Core Advantages: Unnerfed, boasts extremely high burst damage and a smooth leveling process.
• Main Disadvantages: Skills include movement effects, requiring precise aiming to move, making it easy to get stuck on rubble or doorways. The lack of intelligent pathfinding can be frustrating for players unfamiliar with this mechanic.

This build is expected to be extremely popular in PoE 2 Patch 0.5.0, but requires getting used to its unique movement mechanics.

Grenades and Crossbows Tactician

• Core Strengths: One of the strongest story-driven playstyles in the game, remaining excellent even after entering the map, and unaffected by any nerfs in Patch 0.5.0. Players can choose between pure Grenades or pure Crossbows builds, without being forced to mix them.
• Damage Performance: Stormblast Bolts can still instantly kill bosses.

Like Ice Shot Deadeye, a solid early-game playstyle in the league.

Martial Artist

• Core Strengths: Primarily relies on Quarterstaff skills, boasting extremely high damage potential, easily capable of one-shotting bosses. Continuously unleashing the power of bells through infinite combo generation and other methods results in explosive damage output.
• Main Weaknesses: Weakest in the story phase (especially Act 1 and Act 2), a persistent problem in Monk since Patch 0.5.0, only improving in Act 3.

Martial Artist boasts an extremely high late-game damage ceiling, but players must endure a weak early-game progression.

Lich

• Core Gameplay: Can choose between an essence build or a plant build, both emphasizing single-target burst damage.
• Advantages: Very tanky and comfortable to play, good map clearing efficiency, sufficient boss damage, achievable with pure solo self-found gear.
• Disadvantages: A common weakness of all casters is slow movement speed; there are no movement speed talents, and without sufficient PoE 2 currency, it's difficult to increase speed.

Lich will be a comfortable early-game choice for high survivability and low skill ceiling.

Disciple of Rasha

• Positioning: The preferred Ascendancy class in Hardcore mode, with a significantly higher pick rate in the previous league's Hardcore Ladder. Offers extremely high survivability, suitable for players who want to never die.
• Build Versatility: Can play Minions, Ice Nova, and other builds. Minions received a significant buff in Patch 0.5.0, gaining approximately 25% more damage.

Disciple of Rasha is undoubtedly the toughest early-game choice, especially suitable for Hardcore mode or players seeking a higher margin for error.

Totems Build

• Applicable Ascendancy: Blood Mage, Infernalist, Invoker, Oracle, Shaman, etc.
• Notes: Although Totem has been nerfed, it's not unplayable and remains an excellent early-game build.

Late Game Expectations: Totems have a damage cap; transitioning to other builds is recommended later.

Shield Wall Warbringer

• Advantages: Despite nerfs, Shield Wall Warbringer remains a solid early-game choice. Gear is extremely cheap; Smith of Kitava can be used to max out Resistances for free; good shields are inexpensive and can be crafted even with limited PoE2 currency in the early game.
• Disadvantages: Late-game scaling is not as good as other builds, and Movement Speed ​​is relatively slow. Transitioning to stronger builds like Whirling Assault Titan is recommended later.

Shield Wall Warbringer is suitable for players who don't want to play mainstream builds but want to complete the game on a low cost.

Shaman Bear Druid

• Changes: Only slightly nerfed (minor changes to bear form). After a full league of optimizations, the build is now quite mature.
• Strength: Still very powerful, capable of near-full-screen area-of-effect damage in the late game and capable of instantly killing bosses. If you liked Shaman Bear Druid in the previous league, it's equally excellent in Patch 0.5.0.

Shaman Bear Druid is excellent for progression and has a lot of potential for late-game development.

Elementalist Caster

• Representative Build: Usually Spark, the most common progression choice for pure caster playstyles.
• Strength Level: Relatively weaker on this list. Late-game builds for other classes (such as Infernalist) far surpass it, but it's sufficient for completing the story and maps during the early game.
• Suitable Players: Players who only want to cast spells themselves.

A word of caution: don't expect Elementalist Caster to be overpowered from the start, but it's sufficient for all the basics.

Try these builds during the first week of PoE 2 Patch 0.5.0, and good luck with your game!