Beginner's Luck Achievement Guide

This guide explains the quickest way to get the "Beginner's Luck" achievement in Path of Exile.

Introduction

The beginner's luck achievement is obtained by having a unique item drop in Twilight Strand (the first area of the game) in normal difficulty. This guide explains how I got the achievement, and how you can get it pretty easily too!

Getting Started

You're going to need a new character because once you leave the twilight strand in normal, you can never go back. Create a total of 5 marauders, try to name them all close together alphabetically so they appear beside each other in your character selection list, you'll be jumping between them often. Hop on your first Marauder and let's get started.

The Run

When you appear on the beach with your brand new marauder grab the starter weapon and gem from the zombie. Run to Hillock, killing enough enemies along the way to reach lvl 2. Put the point in the 15% melee damage node. Kill hillock. Now exit to the character select screen before going into lioneye's watch, and hop on your next marauder. If you go in, your character can never go back into twilight strand. It takes a few minutes for the zone to reset, which is why we're jumping between characters.

After your first run, where you got to lvl 2, you shouldn't be killing any monsters on the way to Hillock, just run straight for him grabbing convenient chests along the way, and kill him.

Gearing

You'll be in Twilight Strand for quite a while, so you'll actually be gearing up significantly. On each piece you are trying to get Item Quantity/Rarity (of collecting / of plunder suffix), here are the base types and other affixes I reccommend, though feel free to switch base types if you are efficiently killing Hillock, the increase IIR/IIQ is worth it.

Head: Anything
Chest: Nothing - it will decrease movespeed
Amulet: Paua Amulet
Ring: Iron Ring
Belt: Rustic Sash
Gloves: +atk speed is nice
Boots: + move speed (Huge help)
Weapon: Driftwood maul or corroded blade, whatever rolls higher DPS

Skill Points

Take the melee damage nodes, you shouldn't have any trouble with survivability.

Efficiency

Move speed boots are a huge help.

Wisdom scroll's are limited. If you already have a good item in a slot with item rarity or quantity, don't waste a scroll. Save it for a weapon upgrade or filling an empty slot

[Speedy]

Okay, So i really started manning up for this achievement. Made myself 5 shadows to begin the grind. First run: Ezomyte from Hillock. GG

[DK2_electric]

8h grind, full mf items! 3 characters. Got an achievement

[Sink Licker]

i just got lucky

[Majorita]

This guide still did the trick for me. Marauder's easy and low effort, and if you get a nice 2 hand club, a rare 2 hand club maybe even, you can actually almost one-shot Hillock on a good damage roll.

[Country Roads]

i didnt even do most of this stuff im pretty sure, since i got this achievement the first day i had the game

[neon]

I got it accidentally, but going with Shadow is way faster than Marauder

[dwarf]

Great walkthrough. Like many of the comments below, Shadow class turns out to be significantly faster. Experimented with both just to see. But kudos, good sir!

[ror]

I got it by accident lol

[Broseidon]

Did this today with Shadow and it works well with 5 chars.All of them were lvl 3 when i did this ;D

[bassbass 🎏]

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