What it is
PoE 2 Leveling Guide is a website that covers the entire Path of Exile 2 campaign act by act, telling you which quests to run, which rewards to prioritize, and which choices to make in each zone. It's maintained by Burak Can Baskin as a solo project.
It lives at poe2-leveling.com and requires no signup or install. The site ships in five languages: English, Spanish, French, Turkish, and Chinese — uncommon in the PoE 2 tooling ecosystem, where almost everything is English-only.
What problem it solves
The PoE 2 campaign spans several acts with optional quests, permanent rewards (passive points, flask charges) and choices you don't want to miss on a first run. Maxroll's leveling guides are excellent but English-only and dense; YouTube walkthroughs interrupt the gameplay flow.
PoE 2 Leveling Guide collapses that into a simple per-act page: skim what to do, return to the game, repeat. For non-English players entering the genre, reading the guide in their native language meaningfully lowers the friction.
Differentiation
Versus Maxroll's leveling section: Maxroll goes deeper, with build analysis and reasoning behind every decision, but it's English-only and dense. PoE 2 Leveling Guide is shallower but accessible and multilingual.
Versus interactive overlays or trackers with Path of Building import: this site has none of that. It's static web content you read. If you want a sidebar where you tick steps as completed and have recommendations adapt to your build, you won't find it here.
What people use it for
Reading the PoE 2 campaign in their language: the strongest case. Native-language coverage in Spanish, French, Turkish, and Chinese without resorting to machine translation.
Quick refresh between acts: open the next act's page, skim for one or two minutes, return to the game with clear priorities.
First character in a new league: for players who just started a fresh season and want to recall quest order without setting up a complex tool.
Side quest reference for permanent rewards: lists which side quests give permanent rewards worth not skipping.
Who it's not for
If you play in English and already know the campaign, Maxroll will give you more density and reasoning at the same friction.
If you want an interactive tracker with checkboxes and PoB import, this is static web — not your tool.
If you're an experienced player building from scratch, a generic leveling guide won't add much. The sweet spot is first or second character in a fresh league.
How to use it in practice
- Go to
poe2-leveling.comand pick a language using the flag selector in the header. - Navigate to the act you're currently in (Act 1, Act 2, etc.).
- Read the section for the area you're in inside the game.
- Return to the game and progress. If unsure, reopen the tab.
There's no login, progress saving, or cross-device sync. It's plain reading.
Honest limitations
Not open source or community-driven. No public GitHub repo — all content depends on a single maintainer. If the author pauses the project, there's no community fallback to keep it current with future patches.
No interactive tracker or PoB import. Compared with tools like Exile Leveling (PoE 1, far more polished technically), this guide is plain text. You don't track progress and the content doesn't adapt to your build.
Translation quality varies. Non-English versions can have phrasing that needs polishing or game-specific terms that aren't fully localized. The Spanish translation is functional but not flawless.
Coverage can lag patches. After a PoE 2 patch that reshapes zones or quests, the site may take time to catch up. Check lastVerified or cross-reference with Maxroll if you notice inconsistencies.
Limited authorship transparency. The site has no detailed "About" page — only a LinkedIn contact. For some users that lowers editorial trust.
How to start
Go to poe2-leveling.com, switch the language with the flag selector if you want to read in something other than English, and jump to the act you're in. There's no onboarding and no account — open and read.
The intended workflow is to keep it open in a secondary tab or additional monitor while you play. If you only have one monitor, alt-tabbing works but breaks the flow more.