Navigating through Act 2 brings players directly to the Ancient Vows side quest, which centers around the mysterious Valley of the Titans Medallion in Path of Exile 2. Successfully finishing this side mission grants your character lasting passive bonuses that stay active through your entire campaign and endgame journey. Taking the time to finish this quest early on saves you significant effort, helping you preserve your hard-earned POE2 Currency for crucial endgame equipment rather than wasting resources during early leveling.

To complete Ancient Vows, you must recover two hidden relic pieces scattered across distinct Act 2 maps and bring them to the altar at the Valley of the Titans waypoint. While these relic halves drop as random loot from monsters, focusing on specific enemy types will speed up the process considerably.

Harvesting the Left Relic Half in Keth

Your quest begins by traveling to Keth to retrieve the Kabala Clan Relic, which serves as the left side of the medallion. While any defeated monster in Keth has a small chance to drop this key quest item, targeting specific monster packs speeds up your progress immensely.

Focus your attacks on the serpentine and naga-like enemies roaming the area. These snake-like beasts feature a much higher drop probability, so clearing out a few groups of them will quickly yield the left relic half for your inventory.

Locating the Right Relic Half in The Bone Pits

Next, you need to find the Sun Clan Relic, which forms the right half of the medallion. To grab this item, head over to The Bone Pits, an area accessible by passing through the Mastodon Badlands zone.

Just like in Keth, this relic drops randomly from enemies killed in the zone. However, prioritizing the hyena-like creatures roaming the Bone Pits gives you the best chance of obtaining the item quickly, as these beasts carry a far higher drop rate.

Assembling the Relics at the Temple Structure

With both relic halves collected, use the waypoint to travel back to the Valley of the Titans. Right beside the waypoint, locate the impressive stone structure named the Offering to Amrit and climb the temple stairs.

At the top of the stairs sits a giant stone statue directly above the Medallion altar. Approach the altar and place both the Kabala Clan Relic and the Sun Clan Relic into their respective slots to open the reward selection window.

Selecting Your Permanent Character Reward

Placing both relics into the altar unlocks a prompt where you must choose between two permanent, character-bound passive upgrades. Because this decision cannot be changed later, evaluate your current build needs carefully before confirming your choice.

Option 1: The Charm Passive Buff

Selecting the Charm upgrade awards your character three distinct, highly valuable utility bonuses:

• Grants +1 additional Charm Slot

• Provides 30% increased Charm Charges gained

• Increases Charm Effect Duration by 30%

This option offers immense long-term value for nearly every character build, giving you extra utility and constant uptime on crucial charm effects during tough boss encounters.

Option 2: The Flask Passive Buff

Selecting the Flask upgrade gives your character a focused resource recovery enhancement:

• Provides 15% increased Mana Recovery from Flasks

While this option can aid spellcasting builds that struggle with resource management during early leveling, most players prefer the Charm buff due to its superior usefulness in endgame content.

Workarounds for Interface and Selection Bugs

Because this quest requires dragging physical UI elements into place, players occasionally encounter bugs where the altar fails to respond or the reward screen disappears. Luckily, several simple community workarounds can resolve these issues.

If the interaction menu stops responding, press the Z key on your keyboard to toggle item highlights, which usually forces the UI overlay to reset. On PC, if left-clicking does not work, open your inventory, hold the Alt key, and hold Left-Click to manually drag the relic into the altar socket. Console players using controllers can plug in a USB mouse temporarily to click through the reward selection prompt smoothly.

Finishing Your Quest and Maximizing Power

Completing the Ancient Vows quest supplies your character with an important permanent power surge that continues to pay off long after Act 2. Investing a few minutes to grab these relic pieces guarantees a smoother journey into high-tier content. If you want to skip tedious farming altogether and buy high-grade gear right away, securing POE 2 Chaos Orbs through U4N is an excellent strategy to boost your character instantly.