Breach

• Unique Rewards: Breach Ring, Tul's Catalyst, Flesh Catalyst, Xoph's Catalyst, Breach Splinter, Breachstone, Breach Precursor Tablet
• Pinnacle Boss: Xesht, We Who Are One

If you've played Path of Exile 1, you might be familiar with Breach. For Path of Exile 2, we've created sequels to several Path of Exile 1 leagues.

While the mechanic is familiar, the monsters, bosses, rewards, and progression all new.

A Breach is a tear in the fabric of reality. Opening it will allow you to see the demons and otherworldly monstrosities that lie in wait in this other plane of existence.

By engaging with a Breach, you'll create a bridge between their world and Wraeclast.

In order to keep the Breach open, you will need to kill the demons that pour forth. The faster you can kill the monsters,

the more monsters you will fight and the more loot you will find. You can also find clasped hands, that will open and drop more items if you run over them.

These can be a good boost to the rewards of the Breach, so keep an eye out.

Breach Tablets

One of the rewards you might find while fighting monsters from Breach are tablets. Tablets are special items that can be used with precursor towers to add more encounters to the Atlas. Breaches will drop Breach tablets. Clicking on a completed tower will allow you to consume the tablet to add more Breaches to the area within the range of the tower. This makes all content in the Atlas self-sustaining.

Want to do more Breaches? Find the tablets, add them to your towers, get more Breaches getting more tablets.

Soon your Atlas will be covered in other worldly domains. In addition, like all items in Path of Exile, you can craft them.

Use your currency to add more mods to your tablets, allowing you to upgrade all the Breaches in range.

Tablets can have up to two mods. These mods things like adding extra rare monsters, extra clasped hands, or even monster density of Breaches, allowing you to keep them open for longer. Often you will find multiple towers near to each other with overlapping areas of effect. This can allow you to really juice the mechanic by stacking the mods from multiple tablets.

In your fight to hold the Breach demons at bay, you may want to use the powers of their world against them.

Each endgame mechanic always has player power that can only be gained from that mechanic, and Breach is no different.

Catalysts

In Breach, you will find catalysts, items that can increase the quality of rings and amulets by improving specific mods.

You can also find Breach rings, a special base type that can have its quality improved by catalysts up to 50%. In this case, you could create a ring with around 170 life Breach rings can become some of the strongest rings in the game, giving you some good motivation to face the demon hordes. In addition, each endgame mechanic needs to have a pinnacle endgame encounter.

Breach Stone

While killing Breach monsters, you may find Breach Splinters. Collect enough of these and you'll be able to create a Breach Stone.

Realm Gate

Using a Vaal technology called the Realm Gate, you can use your Breach Stone to access their domain and bring the fight to them.

In this Twisted Domain, you will find nothing but a single massive Breach. Triggering it will reveal hordes of Breach inhabitants.

And should you be fast enough, you'll be able to fight their leader. Xesht, We Who Are One.

Now, this is just one of the pinnacle encounters of Path of Exile 2. We won't be showing you the rest of them, so you'll have to discover them for yourself.

But rest assured, this is some of the hardest content we've ever made. All these encounters have specific uniques that can only be found from them.

Atlas Tree: Breach

But that's not all. We still have the progression system. Defeating Xesht will give you points to allocate into the Breach section of the Atlas tree.

Allocating these points will make Breaches and the Breach domain even harder, but will give you more rewards.

The small nodes will increase the difficulty of the Twisted Domain, while the larger nodes will have more specific bonuses.

For example, this node adds more clasped hands to your Breaches and adds packs of magic monsters that can guard them.

Get some more points and you can allocate Waking Nightmare, which will double the number of splinters you get from clasped hands and inflict you with a mysterious debuff.

In order to earn more points, you will need to defeat Xesht at a higher difficulty, and some rewards from Xesht can only be found by increasing the difficulty of the Twisted Domain above certain thresholds. Defeating Xesht at difficulty four will be a challenge indeed, but there are many more threats in Wraeclast.