POE 2 Debuff and Buff Icon explanation

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+1, they really need to add the ability to hover over and see a description of these enemy debuff icons.
Please GGG make icons show description on hover during pause.
playing full aura support dont even know what the debuffs mean... great!
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+1 There really needs to be an in game way to see an explanation but at the very least, something on the POE2 site.
Bump +1

poe2 game badly needs an in-game tooltip hover or game guide wiki to explain

symbols icons - Left vs Middle vs Right
colours - no idea what they mean
visual indicator - some intuitive, some not,

needs a combat log / dead monsters / pause - hover learning in-game explainer.
It's a heavy turnoff from
noob-casual-**enjoying learner (joykill)**-get better-expert, to spend more time playing poe2

Last edited by dexpoe2#4894 on Mar 30, 2025, 1:53:52 PM
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you can hover over the symbols in bossfights as the healthbar there is not connected to your mouseover and always there.

Also this symbols are explained in the connected skill gems videos (the one that everyone has access to but noone bothers to look at).

For example armor breaking ability tell you also what the armor symbol is.


Far right are the resistance symbols. The same symbols you can see in your character screen (C).

Red means -> weak to (takes extra damage)
Grey -> resistent (like 25 - 50%)
Gold -> max resistent (50+ % resistent)

You can for example see the armor symbol change color or vanish when you break armor.


Middle: Status symbols like burned shock bleed and so on. This are the same as the player can have on the top left of his screen. They are all explained in your skill gem by pressing alt.



Tbf everything in the game is explained. Press alt and mouseover every underlined word...

Not everything can and should be explained through a tik tok. You need to read.
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Last edited by PregnantSpadula#1970 on Apr 13, 2025, 3:39:30 AM

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