Path of Exile 2 quest list – all main and side missions

What are the Path of Exile 2 quests? While there are more missions to come as PoE 2 continues its journey through early access, the current quest list gives you an indication of how much progress you’ve made and how much of the story is still to come.

Once you have a good idea of what Path of Exile 2 quests await you, check out the best Path of Exile 2 builds to complete them with ease. As you make your way through all the PoE 2 quests, you may want to look at every Path of Exile 2 ascendancy to understand how you can take your character from strength to strength. For now, let’s take a closer look at all the Path of Exile 2 main quests currently on offer.

All Path of Exile 2 main quests

Act 1

• Reaching Clearfell / Mercy for the Miller
• Secrets in the Dark
• The Mysterious Shade
• Sorrow Among Stones
• The Trail of Corruption
• The Mad Wolf of Ogham

Act 2

• Earning Passage
• The Trail of Corruption
• A Theft of Ivory
• The City of Seven Waters
• A Crown of Stone

Act 3

All Path of Exile 2 optional side quests

Act 1

• Ominous Altars – Speak to Finn in Clearfell Encampment after reaching the Hunting Grounds.
• Treacherous Ground – Speak to Renly in Clearfell Encampment after Reaching Clearfell.
• The Lost Lute – Speak to Uva in Clearfell Encampment after reaching Ogham Farmlands.
• Finding the Forge – Speak to Renly in Clearfell Encampment after reaching Ogham Village.

Act 2

• Ascent to Power – Defeat Balbala in Traitor’s Passage to begin.
• Ancient Vows – Defeat enemies in The Bone Pits or Keth and loot the Sun Clan Relic or Kabala Clan Relic to trigger.
• Tradition’s Toll – Interact with the Abandoned Rhoa in Deshar to begin.

Act 3

• The Slithering Dead – Enter the Venom Crypts in the Jungle Ruins.
• Bubbling Respite – Turn in a Red Mushroom, Blush Mushroom, or Green Mushroom to the cauldron beside the Cauldron Keeper in the Apex of Filth.
• Hidden Idols – Sell Idols collected in Aggorat and Utzaal to Oswald in the Ziggurat Encampment.

All Path of Exile 2 field bosses and points of interest

Act 1

• Clearfell – Mysterious Campsite
• Clearfell – Beira of the Rotten Pack (Optional Boss)
• Mud Burrow – The Devourer (Story Boss)
• The Grelwood – Areagne, the Forgotten Witch (Optional Boss)
• The Grelwood – Witch Hut
• The Grim Tangle – Erving, the Rotten Druid (Optional Boss)
• Red Vale – The Rust King (Story Boss)
• Mausoleum of the Praetor – Forgotten Riches
• Mausoleum of the Praetor – Draven, the Eternal Praetor (Story Boss)
• Tomb of the Consort – Embattled Trove
• Tomb of the Consort – Asinia, the Praetor’s Consort (Story Boss)
• Cemetery of the Eternals – Lachlan of the Lost Lament (Story Boss)
• Hunting Grounds – Dryadic Ritual
• Hunting Grounds – The Crowbell (Optional Boss)
• Hunting Grounds – Ritual Altar
• Ogham Farmland – Una’s Hut
• Ogham Farmland – Crop Circle
• Ogham Village – Renly’s Workshop
• Ogham Village – The Executioner (Story Boss)
• Manor Ramparts – The Gallows
• Ogham Manor – Candlemass, the Living Rite (Optional Boss)
• Ogham Manor – Count Geonor (Act Boss)

Act 2

• Vastiri Outskirts – Rathbreaker (Story Boss)
• Mawdun Quarry – Tinker’s Tools
• Mawdun Mine – Rudja, Dread Engineer (Story Boss)
• Traitor’s Passage – Balbala, the Traitor (Optional Boss)
• Trial of the Sekhemas – Trial of Ascendancy
• The Hilani Gates – Forward Command Tents
• The Hilani Gates – Jamanra, the Risen King (Story Boss)
• Mastodon Badlands – Shrine of Bones
• Keth – Kabala, Constrictor Queen
• Keth – Abandoned Shrine
• The Lost City – The Galleria (Optional Boss)
• The Lost City – Golden Tomb
• Buried Shrines – Guarded Sarcophagus
• Buried Shrines – Elemental Offering
• Buried Shrines – Azarian, the Forsaken Son (Story Boss)
• Valley of the Titans – Medallion
• The Titan Grotto – Titans’ Treasure
• The Titan Grotto – Zalmarath, the Colossus (Story Boss)
• Deshar – Watchful Twins (Optional Boss)
• Path of Mourning – Shifting Vases
• The Spires of Deshar – Sisters of Garukhan (Optional Boss)
• The Spires of Deshar – Tor Gul, the Defiler (Story Boss)
• Dreadnaught Vanguard – Jamanra, the Abomination (Act Boss)

Act 3

• Sandswept Marsh – Rootdredge (Optional Boss)
• Temple Ruins – Mighty Silverfist (Story Boss)
• Jiquani’s Machinarium – Blackjaw, the Remnant (Optional Boss)
• Deadly Nest – Xyclucian, the Chimera (Story Boss)
• Azak Bog – Ignagduk, the Bog Witch (Optional Boss)
• Jiquani’s Sanctum – Zicoatl, Warden of the Core (Story Boss)
• Aureaduct – Metkul, the Forgemaster (Optional Boss)
• Stenchpools – Queen of Filth (Story Boss)
• Temple of Topec – Ketzuli, High Priest of the Sun (Story Boss)
• Utzaal – Viper Napuatzi (Story Boss)
• The Testing Pit – Doryani (Story Boss)

Path of Exile 2 quest order

Each act consists of around half a dozen quests for you to undertake that will take you all over the map. One quest, called ‘The Trail of Corruption’, you’ll see most of the time in the top right of your screen. However, when major events take place, the main quest branches off into several objectives. These will automatically update as you complete the tasks associated with them.

When this happens in Act 2, you should complete ‘A Theft of Ivory’ and ‘The City of Seven Waters’ before continuing on to ‘A Crown of Stone’. The former two contain key shards of a relic used in the ‘Ancient Vows’ side quest, which you’ll complete during ‘A Crown of Stone’. Aside from that, the main story quests are fairly linear.

Side Quest order

For the side quests, you’ll want to prioritize ‘Finding the Force’ in Act 1 to unlock the Salvage Bench. After that, completing ‘Ominous Altars’ for Finn awards you with the spirit necessary to equip persistent buffs. In Act 2, ‘Ascent to Power’ will lead you toward unlocking your Ascendancy, so that’s the most important one to complete, but don’t be afraid to come back to it if you find it too challenging at first.

As of the early access release, there aren’t a lot of traditional side quests in each act where you’re speaking to an NPC and fulfilling some goal for them. In the first act, the side quests are simply obtained from the NPCs in the hub town. Past this point, it becomes a more complicated to find them in Act 2 and beyond.

Path of Exile 2 map order

As you adventure through the three acts available in early access, you’ll stumble across various field bosses and points of interest on the different maps you’ll visit. Seek out the locations that are visible on the map screen, as they usually drop Uncut Gems, items that grant permanent buffs, reveal tidbits of lore, or simply help you complete side quests.

The best way to do so is to visit the various field bosses and points of interest before moving on to the next during the main story quest, as it will take you to all locations in the proper level order. If you do miss a field boss or couldn’t find a specific location, consider returning at a higher level to make searching through dense mobs of enemies easier.

Do note that as of early access, there are some points of interest that don’t seem to trigger, such as the Tinker’s Tools in the Mawdun Quarry, which we couldn’t find. Grinding Gear Games will likely update these and add more in the coming months.

And that’s all the quests currently available in Path of Exile 2 and everything to look for in the three maps. Give our Path of Exile 2 length guide a read to find out how long you’re likely to spend tackling the campaign. We also have a Path of Exile 2 Twitch drops guide to earn some cosmetics to dress up your favorite characters.