“The Mobs Are Too Fast!”—No, You’re Doing It Wrong

Listen up, my fellow fledgling Ascendants!

Let’s get one thing straight: if you're lamenting about lack of currency, not enough loot, or screaming that the monsters are too fast...you're playing the game wrong—or worse, you're listening to popular streamers. Yes, they’re skilled. Yes, they’ve done a lot. But if you’re parroting that sockets are impossible early game or gear is nonexistent, then congratulations—you’ve been indoctrinated by the Cult of Complain.

Buckle up for some truth-bombs that’ll flip the script on your Path of Exile experience and smack the whine right out of the echo chamber.

Here’s the truth straight from the mouth of the last true loot-chad of Wraeclast:

🛑 Step 1: Resist to Exist 🛑
Keep gear with decent resistance rolls—especially rings.

Renly practically begs you to pick up white rings. Craft 'em up like you're his apprentice on your first day at the forge. Two guaranteed drops—Cemetery and Burial Chambers—like starter Pokémon, but for not dying.

Before bosses? Stack the resistance they deal.

Boom. Boss hits like a wet noodle now. You’re welcome.

Also: regen matters. Life %, passive regen, flask charge gain—stack it smart.

Fights go long? You still outlast. Because you don’t just survive—you endure like the Maraketh.

🛑 Step 2: Currency & Crafting 🛑
💰 The Currency Game: Play It or Get Played
The game is designed to drop gear with 2-3 affixes. You’re not supposed to get BiS spoon-fed by RNGesus in the first 5 minutes. Use your brain. Use your bench. Use your loot. Upgrade it yourself like a true Ascendant.

💡 Tips for Making Bank:

SELL your blues. Most of your yellows too. Don’t hoard like a scared little vendor-fearing goblin.

EVERY level-up, portal and check ALL vendors from ALL acts. Buy all cheap items with sockets or quality and salvage them.

🔥 Yes, this includes white/blue items both at vendors and on the ground (duh!)—if they have sockets or quality, they’re secretly gold in disguise.
Those scraps and stones will stack fast and feed your crafting needs like a Karui war feast.
If you’re not doing this, stop whining about having no sockets.

Soon you’ll be swimming in currency and smug satisfaction with more sockets than Ziz has excuses.

Need rares? Craft them. Need mats? Pivot from selling yellows to disenchanting yellows depending on your needs.

NEVER gamble. You're not in Vegas. You're in Wraeclast. Grind and profit.

🛑 Step 3: White Gear, Big Dreams 🛑

Always loot highest-level white bases.

Craft to blue, pray for damage/defense, augment, pray harder.

If it rolls juicy? THEN invest rarer currency. Only then.

🛑 Step 4: The Dodge Button Is Free, Use It 🛑
It’s off cooldown. Always. That’s your “I have a brain” keybind. Use it.

Don’t tank hits you can avoid. Dodge = survival.

If you’re surrounded? That’s on you, not the mobs. Mobility is meta.

🛑 Step 5: The Mobs Are Too Fast? No. You're doing it wrong. 🛑
Don’t be like those popular streamers crying “waaah the monsters are too fast!”

Use roots. Freeze. Chill. Pin. Stun. Slow. Maim. Temporal companions.

Control the battlefield like a true Wraeclastian tactician.

Crowd control isn’t just for support builds. Learn it. Love it. Live it.

🛑 Step 6: Defenses Win Fights 🛑
Stack resistances. Prioritize armour if that’s your jam.

Your goal: DONT GET ONE-SHOT.

Dodge roll = not getting hit twice.

Regen = winning the war of attrition.

And remember: + life regen and 0.25 flask charge gain from tree + gear + flasks is lowkey god-tier. USE THIS.

🛑 Step 7: Don’t Be a One-Trick Zombie 🛑
Just because you built for cold damage doesn’t mean you gotta frost-nuke a cold-immune crab for five minutes like a stubborn potato. And if you specced into fire, doesn’t mean every boss wants to roast marshmallows with you.

If your build’s doing zero damage, pivot, Exile! You’re not married to Flame Wall—slap in a lightning spell, toss in a chaos totem, or throw a tantrum made of cold. Swap it up!

Bosses are generally weak to something—figure it out! You’re not locked in—you’re not a Diablo 2 character with commitment issues. PoE2 is a game of chess, not rock-paper-sulk.

Still skeptical? Check the thread—One exile hit the wall, took this advice to heart, and broke through like a crit strike with 400% multiplier.

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3754811

Disclaimer:
This post is meant to be fun and helpful, not to mock anyone—including popular streamers. Zizaran and others are great players, and I respect their grind. This guide simply shares what worked for me, with 550+ hours played in Hardcore Solo Self-Found (HCSSF) campaign. I genuinely don’t believe the game is too hard or the loot too low. I just want to offer a different perspective so we can avoid nerfing the game into the ground. Hope this helps! Keep grinding, fellow Exiles.

Author: Jonathan ;)

I like this post and agree with it. The checking vendors for every level up is actually a huge reason my gear doesn't suck. Most of my good loot was purchased or dropped by Bosses.

This is how I played and had no problems with the huntress outside of act 2 titan (unparriable) and Jamanra which I got through by actually socketing the gear I had (I was hard determined to save the sockets until I hit an actual wall so that I would have some left).

It would be great if people started giving this advice to new players when they come asking for help, somebody should make a video on this that we could just link to people struggling in the campaign that don't want a build guide.

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NEVER gamble. You're not in Vegas. You're in Wraeclast. Grind and profit.

I was SHOCKED when I heard Ziz only gambles. I thought it was well known that gambling was the worst way to get gear and an absolute last resort. Atleast that's what I heard people saying on the campaign codex speed running discord.

Is this Jonathan on an alt account?

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DoubleDribbl#4042 wrote:

Is this Jonathan on an alt account?

Shhhhh.. don't break the secret!

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Ragestorm26#0930 wrote:

Listen up, my fellow fledgling Ascendants!

Let’s get one thing straight: if you're lamenting about lack of currency, not enough loot, or screaming that the monsters are too fast...you're playing the game wrong—or worse, you're listening to popular streamers. Yes, they’re skilled. Yes, they’ve done a lot. But if you’re parroting that sockets are impossible early game or gear is nonexistent, then congratulations—you’ve been indoctrinated by the Cult of Complain.

Buckle up for some truth-bombs that’ll flip the script on your Path of Exile experience and smack the whine right out of the echo chamber.

Here’s the truth straight from the mouth of the last true loot-chad of Wraeclast:

🛑 Step 1: Resist to Exist 🛑
Keep gear with big resistance rolls—especially rings.

Before bosses? Stack the resistance they deal.

Boom. Boss hits like a wet noodle now. You’re welcome.

Also: regen matters. Life %, passive regen, flask charge gain—stack it smart.

Fights go long? You still outlast. Because you don’t just survive—you endure like the Maraketh.

🛑 Step 2: Currency & Crafting 🛑
💰 The Currency Game: Play It or Get Played
The game is designed to drop gear with 2-3 affixes. You’re not supposed to get BiS spoon-fed by RNGesus in the first 5 minutes. Use your brain. Use your bench. Use your loot. Upgrade it yourself like a true Ascendant.

💡 Tips for Making Bank:

SELL your blues. Most of your yellows too. Don’t hoard like a scared little vendor-fearing goblin.

EVERY level-up, portal and check ALL vendors from ALL acts. If you’re not doing this, stop whining about having no sockets.

Buy all cheap items with sockets or quality and salvage them.

You’ll be swimming in currency and smug satisfaction with more sockets than Ziz has excuses.

Need rares? Craft them. Need mats? Pivot from selling yellows to disenchanting yellows depending on your needs.

NEVER gamble. You're not in Vegas. You're in Wraeclast. Grind and profit.

🛑 Step 3: White Weapon, Big Dreams 🛑
Your weapon is your lifeline.

Always loot highest-level white bases.

Craft to blue, pray for damage, augment, pray harder.

If it rolls juicy? THEN invest currency. Only then.

🛑 Step 4: The Dodge Button Is Free, Use It 🛑
It’s off cooldown. Always. That’s your “I have a brain” keybind. Use it.

Don’t tank hits you can avoid. Dodge = survival.

If you’re surrounded? That’s on you, not the mobs. Mobility is meta.

🛑 Step 5: The Mobs Are Too Fast? No. You're doing it wrong. 🛑
Don’t be like those popular streamers crying “waaah the monsters are too fast!”

Use roots. Freeze. Chill. Pin. Stun. Slow. Maim. Temporal companions.

Control the battlefield like a true Wraeclastian tactician.

Crowd control isn’t just for support builds. Learn it. Love it. Live it.

🛑 Step 6: Defenses Win Fights 🛑
Stack resistances. Prioritize armour if that’s your jam.

Your goal: DONT GET ONE-SHOT.

Dodge roll = not getting hit twice.

Regen = winning the war of attrition.

And remember: + life regen and 0.25 flask charge gain from tree + gear + flasks is lowkey god-tier. USE THIS.

Disclaimer:
This post is meant to be fun and helpful, not to mock anyone—including popular streamers. Zizaran and others are great players, and I respect their grind. This guide simply shares what worked for me, with 550+ hours played in Hardcore Solo Self-Found (HCSSF) campaign. I genuinely don’t believe the game is too hard or the loot too low. I just want to offer a different perspective so we can avoid nerfing the game into the ground. Hope this helps! Keep grinding, fellow Exiles.

sorry I just stop reading at step 2, what crafting, what bench? are we playing the same game? swimming in currency? can you post your currency page to prove it?

you're way too cocky if that's all you can offer

this is an arpg, not a window shoppìng simulator, loot on the ground is supposed to matter. Buying gear upgrades via vendors is boring and lame. and the most important part u kill a boss and dont even get a single yellow item XDXDXDXD. but yeah complain cult....

They lower the impact of magic find, i think they forget to balance drop rates during campain.I try a "not that good" build for second char ,and it is a lot harder.Something around 40mf+ will help,but when u are unlucky u dont get that during campain.

No, you are not right..

The life of monster was dropped a lot, and the minions ones fixed. With that life they had, they ate you and felt faster because need so much damage to kill them...

Dont talk about haste auras..

I used temporal chains (-30% monster speed) and +30 speed on boots + BLINK, and they eat me...

please dont sell films to people, or believe yourselfs.. This problems was fixed days ago..

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Ragestorm26#0930 wrote:

🛑 Step 4: The Dodge Button Is Free, Use It 🛑
It’s off cooldown. Always. That’s your “I have a brain” keybind. Use it.

Don’t tank hits you can avoid. Dodge = survival.

If you’re surrounded? That’s on you, not the mobs. Mobility is meta.

I agree with the other steps, on this one I have to offer disagreement. Sometimes the best way to not get hit is to take a step back. In the time it takes for a melee mob to swing, you can walk out of its range. Even while slowed because you're trying to parry. Dodge rolling has a cost of stopping your attacks. Footwork and blocking is superior as you can't interrupt a dodge roll.

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Shurne#0114 wrote:

this is an arpg, not a window shoppìng simulator, loot on the ground is supposed to matter. Buying gear upgrades via vendors is boring and lame.

We call this prejudice. Judging too early. "I put this label on this object, it MUST conform to my label". I don't view PoE 2 as an ARPG. Sometimes I look at it as a roguelike, sometimes I look at it as an RTS, I will look at it in whatever angle I need to get the results I want.