The Most Fun Path Of Exile 2 Classes, Ranked

Path Of Exile 2 has kicked off its early access with a bang. The game has been a massive hit with fans and, despite its difficulty, boasts some incredibly creative skill trees that allow each player to create their own unique way of playing. Every character can be mixed, matched, and tweaked to suit any playstyle. And with more classes on the way, it’s only going to get more extensive.

Related

Path of Exile 2: How to Get XP Fast (Level Up Fast)

Here’s a quick tip on how to squeeze out as much XP possible while leveling up in Path of Exile 2.

But for those new to Path Of Exile 2, this can all seem overwhelming. Getting the skill points to truly customize the game’s classes takes time. So where to begin? What will give players the most enjoyment during the slow grind to the top? What class is the most fun?

6

Warrior

Smashy Smashy

• The standard fantasy hero character
• Hits hard and can clear hordes easily
• Currently the weakest class which can make him frustrated at higher levels

Warrior is the archetypal tank at the moment. A monster of a man who has spent his days as the adopted son of a blacksmith, the Warrior wades through hordes of enemies with nothing but his hammer and his personal vendetta against the servants of corruption. Story-wise, Warrior is the character for anyone looking for a traditional hero. Warrior’s skills revolve around hitting hard and building up stun. Boneshatter is a massively useful skill, allowing players to stun enemies early and deal massive “area of effect” damage to surrounding foes. Warrior is an extremely fun horde clearer, able to turn a tightly packed group of enemies into a tightly packed group of corpses within seconds.

He also has access to shouts, totems, and magma projectiles to give a more magical edge to his play style. Ascendancies upgrade parts of each class. Titan allows players to deal with and withstand increased amounts of damage, while Warbringer incorporates more druid-esque magic into the character, using ancestor spirits to destroy his enemies. Unfortunately, Warrior is one of the weaker classes at the moment. This might not seem relevant to the fun aspect of playing him, but Path Of Exile 2 is an extremely difficult game. The first act can and will lull Warrior players into a false sense of security. Bosses will go down easily to any stun-focused build and players can expect to breeze through the early game. But from Act 2 and until the damaged monster Warrior can become in the endgame, Warrior players will find themselves dying a lot.

5

Monk

The Last Staffbender

• Mobile, able to teleport around maps
• The way to go for any fan of martial arts films
• Melee glass cannon, very hard to keep alive

For those who’re looking for a more traditional martial arts character, the Monk is the way to go. With an aesthetic and personality lifted straight from a kung-fu movie, the Monk is extremely entertaining and looks cool to boot. Monk is a melee-based class focused on elemental damage. Like a bridge between Warrior and Sorceress. Monk has many abilities that make him extremely mobile. He can easily zip around maps using the flicker strike ability, jumping from enemy to enemy, using the wide arcs of his staff to clear crowds with ease, or simply using his hands to smash apart his foes.

Related

Best Path of Exile 2 Loot Filters

Sort through pools of item drops more quickly with these community-made loot filters for Path of Exile 2.

Monk is one of the more unique classes in Path Of Exile 2 able to utilize far greater mobility than the game’s other melee-focused class, the Warrior. Incorporating crazy elemental spells such as the Tempest Bell, a literal bell that lets off a damaging explosion every time it hits, or the aforementioned Flicker Strike. However, Monk is not without its downsides. Less focused on armor than the Warrior, Monk can use evasion to dodge most attacks, but when he gets hit he feels it. Given Monk’s status as a melee class, he will be getting hit, especially in the first act so players will need to optimize their build from the start.

4

Sorceress

Earth, ice, and fire

• Knowledgeable and powerful
• Extremely powerful elemental spells
• Very low health will almost certainly die if positioned poorly

Slightly rude, but still firmly on the side of good. The Sorceress begins her journey with prior knowledge of the corruption spreading throughout the world in Path Of Exile 2. She returns to her native land of the Vastiri Desert in Act 2.

Related

Path of Exile 2: All Crowd Control Effects

Crowd Control effects play a huge part in Path of Exile 2’s combat, often in ways that not all players know about.

Two words sum up the Sorceress: elemental spells. The class is all about dealing elemental damage. Whether she’s burning hordes with fire spells, slowing down a boss with ice magic or arcing electricity off a rare enemy and their minions. Sorceress can be a ton of fun. Her ascendancies amplify either her lightning or cold damage. The Stormweaver turns the class into a miniature Zeus, disintegrating her enemies with bolts of lightning. Meanwhile, the Chronomancer bends time to her will, slowing down enemies and restoring her own health. And health restoration is important, as this class is a true glass cannon. She is able to deal incredible amounts of damage, but she won’t be able to take it in return. For players who find dancing on that fine line between winning and losing fun, Sorceress is a great pick.

3

Witch

Spooky Scary Skeletons

• Genuinely evil, but funny
• Can summon a horde to help her
• Minion-focused gameplay can turn people away

The Witch is certainly the most villainous of the potential classes. Constantly implying some kind of murderous intent for her allies, or reinforcing that she does everything for her own self-interest. Personality-wise she’s great for players that love a good bad guy and her evil ad-libs can be pretty funny at times.

Witch can turn enemies’ numbers against them, while her skeleton minions hold off any stragglers. The class is conceptually extremely fun, an evil necromancer raising the bodies of those who oppose her to overwhelm any left alive. Her ascendancies allow her to either lean more heavily into this morbid playstyle with the life-leeching Blood Mage or completely change things with the demonic, pyromaniacal Infernalist. Playing the Witch can be an acquired taste. Whilst being a massively fun and satisfying way to play the game. Many players might be turned away by her minion-focused identity, but this can be rectified. When building out the class, players can focus on her damage and massive crowd control potential. But playing the necromancer class without the necromancy feels like a bit of a waste.

2

Mercenary

Brought a machine gun to a sword fight

• A gruff crossbow for hire
• Perfect for those who prefer shooters to traditional ARPGs
• Easy, but makes it harder to get used to other classes

The Mercenary is, well, a mercenary. Players who want a dash of anti-hero thrown into their character can expect a soldier for hire, thrust into the narrative of Path Of Exile 2 by circumstance rather than choice. Mercenary is perfect for those who want to play Path Of Exile 2 but have no experience with ARPGs or Souls-likes. The class essentially turns the game into a top-down shooter with an assortment of crossbows that somehow turn themselves into shotguns, machine guns, and grenade launchers. Fans of games such as Hades or Call Of Duty’s Dead Ops Arcade would feel right at home with this class. And with the incredible damage-dealing Witcherhunter or infinitely customizable Gemling Legionaire as ascendency classes, Mercenary will continue to surprise as he levels up.

Related

Path of Exile 2: How To Raise Max Mana

Mana is crucial for casting spells and using abilities in Path of Exile 2; here’s how to increase your max Mana and Mana regeneration.

Mercenary offers a wide variety of ways for people to play the class, from a grenade-chucking explosives specialist to a boss-sniping assassin. Facing a corridor full of monsters with a machine gun can be incredibly satisfying, and unloading a shotgun into a boss’ face will never get old. Trying new things with the class can be tons of fun too, and ensures you’ll never get bored. However, the distinct way Mercenary plays means that players won’t have much legacy skill when switching to other classes, essentially requiring them to re-learn many of the game’s mechanics.

1

Ranger

A Hail Of Arrows

• A flashy heroine full of one-liners
• Able to dodge and weave around the map, negating her glass cannon status
• Heavily relies on her mana flask

Full of one-liners and with a flashy moveset, Ranger fulfills the other end of the traditional hero archetype, the quippy action heroine. Or well, as much as you can be in the grimdark world of Path Of Exile 2. As a class, Ranger can feel like a blend of Sorceress and Mercenary, but with much greater mobility. A lot of her abilities revolve around elemental damage, but she keeps a physical bow that can be used as a focus for more magical abilities, similar to the Mercenary.

Ranger bounces around the map. The class can avoid damage much more effectively than other “glass cannon” classes, dodging and weaving out of situations that would see similarly fragile classes dead. With the poison-focused Pathfinder and the elite sniping Deadeye, there really are a bunch of ways to make this class fun. The powerful mobility tools and crazy elemental attacks make Ranger an excellent all-rounder with something for everyone. Her only real limit is her mana flask charges, which can get in the way if mismanaged.

Your changes have been saved

My List

My Favorite Games
My Played Games
My Games Wishlist

Path of Exile II

Multiplayer

Online Multiplayer
, Online Co-Op

ESRB

M For Mature 17+ // Blood and Gore, Nudity, Violence