I’m lost what’s a pinnacle Boss?

[Morris]

I’ve been playing Path of Exile almost nonstop, except for the days my wife forces me to go to work. As you can see from my account, I’ve racked up 200 hours. I’ve reached a point with my Witch where I’m consistently clearing Tier 15 maps with no problem, just blowing through them. But now I’m wondering—what’s next? Do I just keep running maps, waiting for something to drop that will let me fight one of the pinnacle bosses I keep hearing about?

I’m new to the Path of Exile universe, and I recently heard on a podcast that people are selling Tier 15 keys for six Divines. Have I been wasting my Tier 15 maps? Should I have been selling them to stack up currency instead? I’ve just been using Exalted Orbs to buff them, running them fully juiced as max yellow Tier 15 maps.

I’m also confused about when and how I encounter a pinnacle boss. I’ve done the missions up to the point where they take me to some kind of tower, and now I’m on three missions that require me to find fragments—or at least I think they’re fragments. Can someone help clarify all of this for me?

[Chris]

pinnacle bosses are the main content bosses at the end of stories, like the quests you are doing.

the usually have requirements that need to be met in order to find/fight them. like collecting map fragments from guardian bosses to access their realm in poe1.

The first pinnalce boss in poe1 was shaper in 2016 and required you to kill his 4 gaurdians over and over until they each rng dropped their fragment, allowing you to access shapers realm.