Recording summary · February 2025
Path of Exile 2： Ultimate Mercenary DPS Build ｜ Fast Leveling (Lvl 40+)
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Overview
Daniel presented a Mercenary leveling DPS AoE build for Path of Exile 2 featuring Oil Grenades, Flash Grenades, Explosive Shot, and Frag Shots, detailing supporting gems, passive nodes, and skill interactions.
The build was demonstrated during a boss fight against Lackland, alongside mentions of a promotional discount code for game currency on aoea.com.
Themes
Core combat strategy involves using Oil Grenades to slow and pin enemies, Explosive Shot for area-of-effect damage, Flash Grenades to apply stun, and Frag Shots for single-target boss damage.
Gem setups and modifiers incorporate Magnified Effect, Primal Armament, Scattershot, Lockdown, Fire Infusion, Overpower, Leverage, and Emergency Reload.
Passive tree allocations focus on maxed crossbow skills, critical strike bonuses, two-handed weapon damage scaling crossbows, and projectile and stun buildup nodes.
A promotional discount code for Path of Exile 2 currency and orbs on aoea.com.
Boss encounter mechanics against Lackland, including handling resource strain and personal commentary regarding the boss's name.
Developments
Daniel demonstrated the build in combat against the boss Lackland.
Uncertainties & gaps
Daniel questioned whether a particular passive node had been allocated before verifying that it was not.
Daniel showed uncertainty regarding the exact mechanism by which a potion was obtained during the Lackland fight.