The latest update for Path Of Exile 2 was a big one. Dawn of the Hunt introduced not only a new character class, but also a host of new endgame mechanics. One of those additions is a new enemy type known as Rogue Exiles. These enemies can use the same skill gems as players and, as an added challenge, they all spawn with an associated unique item, making them extra powerful.
The Rogue Exiles are meant to be a step above regular enemies and even bosses in terms of their AI. They're able to dodge and react to the player, and the fights are intended to feel closer to a PvP-style experience, less predictable and more of an even match to the player's abilities. The trade-off is that players can claim any loot that the Rogue Exile spawns with when they defeat them, including any uniques.
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Not all Rogue Exiles are equal in difficulty though. There are 12 Rogue Exile archetypes, like a 2-handed mace-wielding Hammer of the Gods user, and a poison-focused Ranger, but their individual difficulty varies more based on the uniques they spawn with. So, these are the hardest Rogue Exiles players can find in Path of Exile 2, ranked by just how deadly their unique item effects are to the player.
7 Bramblejack
Melee Reflection
- Unique Effect: Reflect 250% of melee physical damage
Any Rogue Exile that spawns with the Bramblejack body armor will prove deadly to melee builds. 250% reflection of melee damage is going to be enough to 1-shot most heavy physical hitters with their own basic attacks. If players see this unique listed on a Rogue Exile (displayed under their helath bar), there are two ways to deal with it.
The easiest way is to kite them with ranged attacks, as this damage won't be reflected. Elemental damage can also get around this reflection, so element-infused melee attacks aren't as dangerous to use, as long as they don't have a significant physical damage component.
6 Birth of Fury
Burning Ground
- Unique Effect: Creates ignited ground dealing 10% of max life per second in damage
Birth of Fury can be a deadly unique when it's applied to a scaled-up, endgame map level enemy. Assuming the damage isn't scaled down when this unique is used by Rogue Exiles, that's 10% of the enemy's max life per second in damage, which will be many times the life of the average player character, making this ground effect very dangerous.
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This has been mitigated somewhat by the 40% nerf to Rogue Exile's total life pools, but it's still a unique effect to watch out for if you see Birth of Fury listed under the Rogue Exile's name.
5 Beacon Of Azis
No Resistance
- Unique Effect: Critical hits ignore resistances
Resistances are vital when players are running endgame maps. Without capped resistances, players will often find themselves getting one-shot, so suddenly being without resistances for an enemy's biggest hits is a big deal.
Without the specific Rogue Exile getting a super-lucky item roll that also helps crit chance, this effect, fortunately, won't proc a lot, but it will definitely one-hit-kill some unlucky players when it does.
4 Beira's Anguish
Ignition Chain
- Unique Effect: When ignited, ignite nearby enemies for 25% max life in damage
The potential damage that this unique effect can do to a player when scaled by a Rogue Exile's health pool is huge, potentially a whole health bar's worth of damage from one tick of ignite. This is only mitigated by the fact that the effect only applies if the enemy is ignited first, so as long as the player isn't doing any fire damage, they'll be okay.
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Fire-damage builds should probably just avoid any Rogue Exile they see with this unique item though, or risk a self-inflicted instant death.
3 The Coming Calamity
Elemental Annihilation
- Unique Effect: Nearby enemies have no elemental resistances
Elemental resistances are so important in Path of Exile 2's endgame. Any Rogue Exile that spawns with The Coming Calamity body armor and any elemental-based abilities at all is going to be a deadly combo.
Maintaining maximum range from a Rogue Exile with this unique might keep players safe, assuming the exile doesn't have a way to close the gap quickly. Players might get lucky and find a Rogue Exile with a physical skill set and this unique, but it's far more likely that either their weapon or abilities will have an elemental component.
2 Defiance Of Destiny
Self-Healer
- Unique Effect: Recovers 10% of missing life before being hit
Depending on how a player's build deals damage, this unique could potentially make a Rogue Exile unkillable. The Defiance of Destiny amulet will give a Rogue Exile 10% of their max life back in healing prior to taking a hit.
Practically, this means that if a player isn't doing over 10% of the enemy's max life with their biggest hits, and they're not doing damage over time, they won't be able to whittle the Rogue Exile's health down before they can heal the damage. There are some endgame builds that could handle this, especially DoT-focused ones, but it's still going to make fights long and drawn-out affairs in most cases.
1 Maligaro's Virtuosity
Deadly Crits
- Unique Effect: Grants 300% critical strike damage bonus
The critical strike damage bonus from the Maligaro's Virtuosity gloves is one that players love to use with crit-based builds. 300% damage on top of the 100% default critical hit bonus is some serious additional damage. Of course, when this bonus is applied to a Rogue Exile, that translates into a one-hit-kill with any critical hit.
This will only trigger on critical hits, but that's still enough to make players incredibly wary during a fight, as any stray hit could suddenly turn deadly. This is among the strongest unique items a Rogue Exile can spawn with, but players should remember that this item pool potentially includes any non-boss-specific unique, so there are plenty of deadly options.
Path of Exile II
- Released
- December 6, 2024
WHERE TO PLAY
- ESRB
- Mature 17+ / Blood and Gore, Nudity, Intense Violence, Sexual Themes, Language, Users Interact, In-Game Purchases (Includes Random Items)
- Developer(s)
- Grinding Gear Games
- Engine
- Proprietary Engine
- Genre(s)
- Action RPG, Hack and Slash, MMORPG
- Platform(s)
- PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, PC
