Breach

This Breach Farming Guide covers the basics of farming Breach, it's rewards and how to challenge the pinnacle boss, Xesht.

Whilst completing Waystones on your Atlas you encounter maps with Breach encounters on them. This means that the map contains a Breach hand, after stepping through it you open a gate way to the Breach world and you have to defeats hordes of Breach monsters. Slaying more enemies increasing the duration of the encounter and cause more monsters to spawn. As well as Monsters, Breach Hands can spawn which drop additional loot when you run over them.

The exclusive rewards from Breach include Catalysts; used to improve the Quality of your Rings and Amulet, or Breach Splinters; used to create a Breachstone.

Breach is a very simple mechanic, run over the hand to begin the encounter and defeat the enemies before they defeat you. Monsters always spawn at the edges so focus on clearing the Breach out from the centre to give yourself space. It's easy to be overwhelmed as monsters spawn in when you stand near the edge of the Breach. As you move out from the centre look for any Clasped Hands that have spawned, running over them opens them and drops loot such as Catalysts or Breach Splinters.

To guarantee a Breach encounter on some of your Waystones, use a Breach Precursor Tablet on a Watchtower. This adds a Breach encounter to the number of Waystones stated on the implicit modifier of the item. Any explicit modifiers apply to all uncompleted maps within the towers radius.

Breach, like all of the Atlas Mechanics in Path of Exile 2's early access has a Pinnacle Boss encounter. After gathering 300 Breach Splinters and combing them together, you receive a Breachstone. Place this into the Realmgate at the centre of your Atlas to open a Portal to the Breach realm where you face Xesht, We That Are One.

To reach Xesht, open the Breach Hand at the start of the encounter and fight your way through the hordes of enemies until reaching the end of the stage. You know it's the end of the stage as any loot dropped by the monsters up to this point drops at the end instead.

The boss has 4 levels of difficulty that can be increased by the Breach specific Atlas Passive Tree up to difficulty level 4. Increasing the difficulty of the bosses has multiple effects, including;

• Enhanced Abilities
• Higher Health Pool and Damage
• Better Unique Item Drops

Catalysts

Defeating monsters and opening Clasped Hands has a chance to drop Catalysts. These are used to increase the Quality on Rings and Amulets.

• Adaptive Catalyst
• Carapace Catalyst
• Chayula's Catalyst
• Esh's Catalyst
• Flesh Catalyst
• Neural Catalyst
• Reaver Catalyst
• Sibilant Catalyst
• Skittering Catalyst
• Tul's Catalyst
• Uul-Netol's Catalyst
• Xoph's Catalyst

Breach Splinters

Defeating monsters and opening Clasped Hands has a chance to drop Breach Splinters. These can be combined once reaching 300 to create a Breachstone, to challenge Xesht.

Pinnacle Boss

Xesht has a Unique Loot Table that gains more items as you increase the Difficulty of the encounter. This is a non-comprehensive list of the Unique Items that can drop;

• Skin of the Loyal
• Xoph's Blood
• Choir of the Storm
• The Pandemonius
• Hand of Wisdom and Action
• Beyond Reach

Written by: Milkybk_

Reviewed by: Tenkiei