In Path of Exile (PoE), upgrading your Pantheon powers is an essential step to enhance your character’s defenses and overall survivability. This guide focuses on capturing Hybrid Widow to upgrade the Soul of Arakaali, providing a significant boost to managing debuffs.
Understanding the Soul of Arakaali
The Soul of Arakaali offers valuable defensive buffs, particularly against Damage Over Time (DoT) effects. Here’s the base ability and its potential upgrades:
Base Ability:
Soul of Arakaali: “10% reduced Damage taken from Damage Over Time.”
Upgrades:
Capture Maligaro the Mutilator (Overgrown Shrine Map): 20% increased Recovery rate of Life and Energy Shield if you’ve stopped taking Damage Over Time Recently.
Capture Hybrid Widow (Arachnid Tomb Map): Debuffs on you expire 20% faster.
Capture Shadow of the Vaal (Maze Map): +40% Chaos Resistance against Damage Over Time.
Capturing Hybrid Widow provides a significant upgrade by making debuffs expire 20% faster, which is crucial for maintaining your character’s performance in challenging encounters.
Steps to Capture Hybrid Widow
Acquire the Arachnid Tomb Map and add it into your map device at your hideout. Arachnid Tomb Map Tier: 8, 11, 15, 16, 16.
Add a Divine Vessel into the map device.
Run the map and kill the Hybrid Widow boss (you can have other players help kill the boss, but you must be present in the map for the capturing to work).
Check your map device, you should have acquired the Captured Soul of a god (item that looks like a blue bottle).
Consume the Captured Soul to upgrade a God Power.
View your Pantheon and roll over the God you are trying to upgrade; the upgraded God Power should now be available.
There must be space in the map device for the Captured Soul or it will be deleted.
Why Upgrade the Soul of Arakaali?
Upgrading the Soul of Arakaali provides significant defensive benefits that enhance your character’s survivability:
Debuffs on you expire 20% faster: This upgrade, obtained by capturing Hybrid Widow, helps mitigate the duration of harmful effects, allowing you to recover and respond more effectively in combat.
20% increased Recovery rate of Life and Energy Shield if you’ve stopped taking Damage Over Time Recently: This upgrade, from capturing Maligaro the Mutilator, is particularly valuable for quickly recovering from DoT effects.
+40% Chaos Resistance against Damage Over Time: Capturing Shadow of the Vaal provides this upgrade, offering substantial protection against chaos DoT effects.
These upgrades make the Soul of Arakaali a versatile and powerful defensive option, suitable for a variety of builds.
Important Tips
Map Device Space: Always ensure there is space in your map device for the Captured Soul to avoid deletion.
Pantheon Sharing: Upgrades to the Pantheon are shared between all characters in the same league but are disabled until the character has completed “An End to Hunger” (completing the Act campaign).
Conclusion
Capturing Hybrid Widow and upgrading the Soul of Arakaali is a vital step in enhancing your character’s defenses in Path of Exile. By following the steps outlined in this guide, you can efficiently upgrade your Pantheon powers and enjoy the benefits of faster debuff expiration, increased life and energy shield recovery, and improved chaos resistance. Keep exploring, Exiles, and may your journey through Wraeclast be ever prosperous!
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