Path of Exile 2: How to get more spirit and what it is for

A notable addition in Path of Exile 2 is the resource known as spirit. Similar to mana, spirit is crucial for executing various actions within the game. At the beginning of your journey, you won’t start with any spirit, leaving you to wonder how to acquire it. This guide will outline how to obtain spirit and its functions.

Ways to Increase Your Spirit

In Path of Exile 2, there are a couple of methods to gain more spirit:

• Completing quests and defeating bosses: Throughout the campaign, certain quests involve battling bosses that grant a permanent increase to your spirit upon defeat.
• Equipping items that grant spirit: Some weapons and armor inherently provide spirit to your character’s stats.

As noted, the options for boosting your spirit are limited. Skills on the passive skill tree do not directly enhance spirit levels. However, a reliable way to acquire spirit is by using staves, which typically offer at least +100 spirit (or potentially more). These weapons can often be found as loot drops or purchased from NPCs in settlements using in-game currency.

While certain armor pieces might also provide spirit, this is less common. Keep in mind that these items can have modifiers that increase spirit by a percentage, depending on their rarity. The rarer the item, the higher the chances of these beneficial modifiers being present, making it worthwhile to search for items with these enhancements or use orbs to unlock them.

Additionally, remember to complete quests and defeat bosses, as some bosses drop consumable items that can permanently boost your spirit without needing to equip spirit-giving gear. Pay attention to boss icons on your map, as you might find encounters that help you increase your spirit.

Purpose of Spirit

In Path of Exile 2, spirit serves as a resource for activating specific abilities that require a reserve of this resource. It is used for maintaining ongoing effects, such as defensive or offensive boosts (previously known as auras in the original Path of Exile), and is primarily needed for summoning minions via skill gems.

For instance, the Skeleton Warrior skill requires you to manage your spirit reserve to keep a certain number of skeleton minions active during combat. When you add this skill to your skill panel, you can adjust the amount of spirit reserve allocated based on your preferences and needs.

You can track your available spirit alongside your mana, displayed as a blue bar on the right side of the bottom section of your screen. Spirit is represented by a small bar surrounding the mana bar.

To sum up, if you aim to effectively use summoning skills, you’ll need a significant amount of spirit. This is particularly essential for characters like the Witch, so make sure to increase your spirit whenever possible as you progress through the game.