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Zizaran

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Path of Exile & ARPG content creator since 2015

Zizaran has been making Path of Exile and ARPG content since October 2015 and streams daily on Twitch. The Path of Exile guides on GuideFactory credited to Zizaran are written from Zizaran's YouTube videos, with the original video linked under each guide.

6 guides published

Latest guides

Path of ExileIntermediateMechanics

Shaper Boss Fight Guide: Access, Phases & Attacks Explained

How the Shaper fight actually works: fragment access, the three-phase structure, the beam/slam/ball attacks, and loot, checked against the current wiki with notes on what's aged out of Zizaran's 2022 recording.

8 min read 21Updated 2 months ago
Path of ExileBeginnerLeveling

PoE Campaign Leveling Guide: Zones, Vendor Recipes & Early-League Tips (Acts 1-10)

Campaign and early-league tips from Zizaran: which wiki to trust, useful vendor recipes, good leveling zones per act, and how to make early currency. Fact-checked against the wiki - one recipe claim was corrected and outdated Atlas advice (map isolation/mix-matching, removed in patch 3.28) is flagged rather than presented as current.

7 min read 23Updated 3 months ago
Path of ExileIntermediateBuilds

PoE 3.29 Luminary Ascendancy League Starter Guide (Mercenary Support)

A breakdown of Zizaran's pre-league Luminary Ascendancy starter plan for Path of Exile 3.29 - a Mercenary-support build centered on Flame Link. Explicitly flagged as speculative, untested pre-league theorycrafting rather than a proven build, since Luminary is brand new and has no wiki page yet.

7 min read 27Updated 3 months ago
Path of ExileBeginnerMechanics

PoE Mapping Guide Explained: Tiers, Atlas & Void Stones

A conceptual overview of Path of Exile's endgame map system - tiers, white/yellow/red terminology, and Void Stones - built from an older Zizaran lecture but explicitly fact-checked against the wiki to flag which mechanics (like the "connected map" system and Favourite Maps) have since been reworked.

8 min read 38Updated 3 months ago
Path of ExileBeginnerMechanics

Path of Exile Delve Guide Explained: Sulphite, Azurite, Fossils & Finding Hidden Walls

A beginner-friendly walkthrough of Path of Exile's Delve system: what it gives you (fossils, Azurite upgrades, unique bosses), how to sustain sulphite from mapping, and how to actually find the hidden walls that gate the best rewards.

9 min read 37Updated 3 months ago
Path of ExileBeginnerBuilds

Path of Exile 3.29 Winter Orb Elementalist Build Guide

Zizaran's Winter Orb Elementalist for 3.29 Curse of the Allflame, cross-checked against real Day 14 popularity data before you commit to it as your starter.

9 min read 88Updated 3 months ago