As a large-scale, complex ARPG, even though Path of Exile 2 is currently only an incomplete early access, I believe you must have felt that it requires you to invest a lot of time to fully experience it. Despite this, there are still some hidden details that are easy to be overlooked.
There is no doubt that in order to cultivate your game character in POE 2 so that it can be successfully upgraded or accumulate POE 2 Currency, you need to make use of all the favorable mechanisms as much as possible. Besides the obvious skill gems or passive skill trees, those inconspicuous mechanisms or items can sometimes play a big role.
Based on this, this time we will introduce you to how Power Charges and Golden Idols work in Path of Exile 2.
What Is Power Charges?
Energy Charge is actually one of the many effects that can help you create super builds in the game. Although the effect works slightly differently compared to the first game, what remains unchanged is that almost every class can use Energy Charge, although some classes may use it more conveniently.
Alternatively, you can think of Power Charges as tokens for certain skills or skill effects. Power Charges themselves don’t directly benefit you, but certain skills, such as Falling Thunder, can become more powerful by consuming these charges. Power Charges last for 20 seconds by default, but can be refreshed over time as you gain new Power Charges.
While Power Charges are not required to cast skills, and are not required to use builds, they do make certain builds more powerful, such as Tempest Flurry Invoker Build.
On the other hand, Power Charges have the same characteristics as Frenzy and Endurance Charges - by default, they do nothing on their own, but whenever a skill that consumes them is used, they provide a significant combat benefit.
How Are Power Charges Generated?
The generation of Power Charges depends on the class you play, and the skills you have available. For example, Killing Palm gains a Power Charge every time it deals a critical hit to an enemy, while Profane Ritual generates a charge by consuming a corpse, while dealing chaos damage in the corpse.
If you have Resonance activated in the passive skill tree, you can convert Frenzy Charges you get into Power Charges. This conversion can generate some new combinations of skills and support gems, giving you the opportunity to use a wider variety of skills or discover the shining points of skills that were originally useless.
It is worth noting that Cast on Ailment buff can auto-generate Power Charges for you. For example, if you bind Profane Ritual to such a buff, you will trigger the skill without any input - provided that you keep applying the relevant Ailment. And Cast on Ailment buff will gain energy and trigger the skill faster when facing stronger enemies.
Available Support Gems
If you accumulate enough support gems while playing POE 2, you will find that they can help you generate more charges or make skills consume charges to enhance their effects. The current support gems related to Power Charges in the game are mainly:
- Profusion
- Perpetual Charge
- Potential
What Are Golden Idols?
There are quite a few quests to complete in the three acts of Path of Exile 2 early access. Some are easy, while others require you to fight very powerful bosses - the good thing is that you may get the rare POE 2 Regal Orb.
However, compared to the quests that can be easily found in the log, some quests are not obvious, or even not added to your quest log at all, such as the collection of Golden Idols in Act 3. Although these items are marked as quest items, it is difficult to feel the quest item characteristics of them.
Specifically, Golden Idols are actually a unique POE 2 quest item, and there are 6 of them available for you to collect. And after collecting them, you can sell them in exchange for a large amount of gold.
How To Get Golden Idols?
When you enter Act 3 and successfully explore the ruins of Vaal civilization below Ziggurat camp, you will be taken back to the past by a portal to continue visiting the once glorious Vaal city of Utzaa. This city represents the heyday of Vaal civilization and is now known as The Drowned City.
If you want to find Golden Idols as quickly as possible, try not to be distracted by the city’s magnificent visual wonders. Next, you may find some Golden Idols in Utzaa and its connected areas. There are three in Utzaa itself and another three in the connected area, Aggorat.
Utzaal Golden Idols:
- Glorious Idol
- Golden Idol
- Grand Idol
Aggorat Golden Idols:
- Exquisite Idol
- Exceptional Idol
- Elegant Idol
Each of these Golden Idol items can be found on the ground or on pedestals in the corresponding area, and most of the time they will appear in the side rooms connected to each area. It is worth noting that they will not drop from normal enemies in these areas, so you can only do your best to search for them.
What Do Golden Idols do?
Once collected, you can bring these Golden Idols back to Ziggurat camp and exchange them for gold. However, this transaction is not available to every vendor.
To save time, it is recommended that you go directly to the north side of Ziggurat camp, find Oswald, and talk to him. During the process, he will comment on your Golden Idols, and then you can open the corresponding trading interface to sell your Golden Idols. The current amount of gold that can be exchanged for each Golden Idol is as follows:
- Golden Idol: 500 Gold
- Exquisite Idol: 500 Gold
- Grand Idol: 1000 Gold
- Elegant Idol: 1000 Gold
- Glorious Idol: 1500 Gold
- Exceptional Idol: 1500 Gold
Since each Golden Idol will take up a small part of your inventory and they have no other use except being sold as high-value items, it is recommended that you return to Ziggurat Camp immediately after collecting them to sell them to save backpack space.
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