Looking for a guide to 100.

Last league I got several characters to 95. I hit a hump, a lack of defensive layers or dps and can't progress. I am looking for a guide on a build that would get me to 100. Prefer one button. Does not require uniques such as hh, mb, progonsis

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Do something with level 83+ monsters that you cannot die in. Do it a lot.

Beachheads and Coward's Trials work for most builds. Breachstones can work too. When people say they can't make it to 100 it's because they're impatient and overextending for what their build can do.


This league I made a character specifically for ultimatum farming and got 100 without really trying. Took time, yes, but I couldn't die and I got non-negligible amounts of xp.

You don't need a guide foe that, just don't die.

If you don't want many buttons RF might be good.

You sort of have two separate questions. Getting an improved build and then farming to 100. I would focus on the first one. Getting to 100 is not important and it takes a long time while learning. Getting a good build that is not dying and capable of getting to 100 is more important.

If you do get your build sorted out and are trying to get those last levels, omen of amelioration can be very useful to protect against the occasional death. You will need to first be going very long stretches without dying. I died about 3 times on my current level. That is not too bad with the omen, its like one death. Without the omen I would of had to of played much safer, because 30% of level 100 is starting to be too much to overcome. If you're dying more than once or twice on your current level then it is going to be tough, because you have to extrapolate that over a longer journey on the final few levels. More xp loss and more time levelling, so more deaths.

Just run safe area's where you wont die. How good your build is will determine how much you can push the limit on that, making it much faster if you can run juiced up maps. Delve is pretty cost efficient for levelling if you aren't able to afford other setups that might be quicker. If you're doing maps make sure you have a good atlas for what you are trying to achieve, rolling good maps, using helpful scarabs.

If you want a fast lvl 100 you kind of got to cheese it with either breachstones 5way or other xp cheese mechanic. If you just want a build that doesn't die so you can eventually hit 100 while doing maps and bosses I would suggest playing something with 15k+ ES like a trickster. The gigantic hp pool is one of the keys to surviving in this game long term. Life based RF is also good but still likely to die while bossing as you can only get so much life plus damage.

With all that said idt you should worry at all about getting lvl 100 it doesn't do much for you and takes a long time to get from maps.

Level 100 is more about being careful which content you're running.

If I wanted to level up with my glass canon warden, I'd simply avoid dangerous map mods, altars and T17 maps for a few days. Of course, loot/gold would take a hit, probably I wont do this sacrifice (yet).

Another efficient way to level to 100 is to run sanctums. The final boss gives tons of experience.

1. Put blue tier 16 maps with no damage mods in map device
2. Run maps until you are blue in the face
3. ????
4. Level 100

Run something like this in your atlas https://poeplanner.com/a/9z2
Use 2x stacks of abyss scarabs, 2x stacks of abyss scarab of multitude, run a evolving shrine scarab in the last slot.
Atlas craft an additional abyss onto your map
Roll a decent t16, watch for bad mods.
Run this repeatedly, if you die in this setup improve your character.
At lv96 you get 10% per map, so that's 10 maps for a level
At lv97 you get 5% per map, so that's 20 maps for a level.
Then it goes down to like 3% so will take a few more maps, at this point use breach stones, synthesis maps, 5 ways etc

It's not exactly that you have hit a hump at 95, the is an actual steep increase around there, I would say at about level 96 in particular. If you look at how XP works you will see why this is. One, because the amount of XP to level is increasing exponential; two, most zones in the game only go upto level 83 or a few beyond, so the XP penalty gets more extreme each level you progress; three the XP penalty becomes more relevant the higher you go.

Most accounts will have a lot of characters around these mid 90's, because that is where gaining XP becomes more of a challenge. There seems to me to be a lot more characters reaching 100 now, because levelling has become much easier, but it is still a big incline beyond these levels.

I don't think there is a good guide for reaching 100. I've looked for one before and didn't find one. I think the main reason is things change in POE very fast, so any guide created may no longer accurate in a month. Most the constant information would be things in this thread like improve build, don't die. It would be useful to have more information on relative XP gained for different areas. I've seen on the forum a group of people have been trying to compile some of this information for ruthless mode. Also, 95-100 isn't that big a part of the game. For the most part, the game is basically the same at 95 as it is at 100, unless for some reason your build can't function without every single point.

I think there is usually a meta of what is best at the time, but it can also be a bit build dependent. I'm not the person who knows what that meta is, so can't pass it on, other than group 5-way legion seems to be the thing thing that is mentioning for a while now. For solo there is usually something, but it may not continue over multiple leagues. Like repeat farming a delve node. Last league XP shrines seemed to be very popular. This league I found safehouse farming to be quite useful and Alva temple to be pretty good. Where in the past I had more success with breachstones and beyond. I think abyss was good not that far back but not sure how good it is currently. I think they nerfed some of the XP atlas for it. In general, I just think juicing up maps as much as you can without dying is the main thing. Probably t17 are very good currently, but would be too dangerous for a lot of builds, including mine, when you have access to unlimited t16 maps that can be very safe.

I think this is one of the few things in the game that doesn't have a lot of information created for it. There are endless guides for builds and farming currency but not so much about XP. There's quite a bit of good information on getting to 95. I think if you get that far you can probably figure out how to get to 100, even if it is not efficient and going to take you a long time. People just wan't to know the best strategy for how to do it fast. It's mainly clear the most mobs without taking on risk. If someone does know a good source of information for this, I think it would help a lot of players. The main thing I would say is it is not necessary. Focus on doing one level at a time. Once you get that level, evaluate if it is worth getting the next level or not. This is not necessary for doing all content in the game. That is why you will see many build guides or pre league planning don't have their builds completely maxed out on skill points, because a large part of playing the build will be without the last few points.