Path of Exile 2： Ultimate Mercenary Lightning Build Guide for Massive DPS

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Hello, welcome back to a new video.

So in today's Path of Exile 2 mercenary

build guide, we'll be showing you how to

use the Plasma Blast skill ability and

have it really good for killing basically

everything in the game.

So Plasma Blast is a high-end level 12+

skill gem ability that basically takes 4

seconds to charge up this electricity bolt

and then fires 1 round, but we're gonna

make it shoot 3.

So watch this, it goes 1, 2, 3, and it

shoots these high-energy, high-damage

plasma bolts.

And the way we get 3 bolts instead of 1,

so we got Scattershot.

Without Scattershot, it will just do this.

One and then it's done.

But you put Scattershot on, so Scattershot

is going to fire 2 additional projectiles

at the cost of dealing 20% less damage per

projectile.

But that is a fair trade-off.

So in exchange for losing 20% damage,

you're now going to be firing twice, which

is like a gain of 160% damage.

So yeah, it is definitely worth the

trade-off.

And also you have 20% less attack and cast

speed, so I'm guessing So it takes 4

seconds with that on.

1, 2, 3,

4.

So I'm guessing without it on, it's going

to take less than 4 seconds if it says

20%, 20% less cast speed.

So 1, 2, 3, 4.

I mean, it's basically the same.

20% of 4 seconds is probably like 0.3

seconds.

So yeah, it's definitely worth using

Scattershot Uh, where did I put it?

Oh, there it is.

And then we also put Ricochet.

Ricochet is gonna increase the chance of

it chaining off terrain by 40%.

So we got a lot of terrain ricochet

skills.

So we got Ricochet, and then also with the

passive skills, uh, got this.

So you get a 5% increased chance to

ricochet another 5% and also another 10%,

so you get 20% and also 30% chance to

pierce an enemy.

So you get 20% chance to ricochet plus 40,

you've got 60% chance to ricochet.

And that's really going to be useful

because it's going to bounce off, because

this thing's bloody annoying.

Oh look, look at it, it's ricocheting.

This thing's really annoying because it

takes ages to charge.

4 seconds is forever.

So if you can get a ricochet, you get an

extra use out of one of those hard-earned

charged-up blasts.

So it's good to see it ricocheting around

to do extra damage.

And we've also got Primal Armament that

will give you 25% more elemental damage.

So we're gonna be doing lightning damage

with this plasma blast.

Don't know if in real life plasma actually

counts as lightning damage, but it is what

it is.

So you could also get, uh, lightning buffs

like Lightning Rod, lightning damage I

didn't have enough points yet, so I went

into elemental attack damage.

So that's going to give you 12% increased

elemental attack damage.

But to be honest, I feel like it does

enough damage.

The main problem with this is it just

takes so long to charge up,

and you need a way to keep the enemies

away from you.

I use flash grenade.

That will stun them a little bit and slow

them down.

But really, you want a way to pin them

down, but I don't have any— don't seem to

have any abilities that can just pin them

in place.

So that's kind of an annoying thing.

So watch, this is what the game style

gameplay is like.

You basically just try to kite them whilst

you charge up your plasma bolt.

So that's the play style for going up

against large groups of enemies.

I'll try and find a large group of enemies

in this area.

A lot of empty rooms here so far.

Uh, maybe a chest.

Ooh, lots of gold dropping recently.

I feel like I'm making way more gold than

I used to.

Watch, watch, watch.

So the best thing is when you can get

an ambush on the enemies, they don't

expect you coming.

Oh my God, did you see that?

I just blew them all up.

So the best thing is when you can get the

jump on the enemy and then you can charge

up this thing.

The problem is when you get ambushed and

you don't really have much time to charge

up this thing whilst getting pounded.

So it really is very deadly when you can

see the enemy on the edge of the screen

and you've got plenty of time to charge

up.

But when they are coming right at your

feet like that, it's a bit dangerous.

So you want to be a bit tanky.

So I went for health to increase my health

so I can survive.

Oh, everything just appeared out of

nowhere.

Oh, a skill gem.

Yeah, everything— I mean, I don't know

what I was saying.

Yeah, if things just start coming at you

really quickly— watch this, watch, look at

this.

Are they gonna animate or what?

I guess not.

Oh, when it ricochets, it does so much

damage.

Oh, this is like a mini boss.

Look how much damage I'm doing against it.

Problem is, if you get stunned a lot— oh

my God, and now I lost the loot.

The problem is, if you get stunned, it

does interrupt your charging of the plasma

blast.

Oh, watch this, watch.

Oh my God, it just decimates groups of

enemies.

Oh, he just knocked me out of charging my

bolt.

I think he did a shield bash or something.

Wow, why is my game lagging?

Yeah, I don't know how you make this build

work without Scattershot, cuz having 3

blasts instead of 1 makes it so much

better.

That was definitely longer than 4 seconds.

These little beetle things, I don't know

what they're doing to me, but it's not

good.

Now where do I go?

Where's my map?

Oh

yeah, so when I go up against a boss,

ricochet is not that useful.

I'd rather go for more damage like

Inevitable Critical is pretty good because

basically means you're guaranteed a crit.

So basically what it does is

you get 25% increased chance to hit every

second, but you lose your crit chance hit

when you actually do a crit, and then it

starts recharging up again.

So because it takes such a long time— oh

look, the boss thing's still there.

That's weird.

Usually mini bosses despawn if you die.

This thing really comes at you.

I can't even charge it.

There you go.

Easy.

Yeah, I forgot what I was saying.

Whatever.

I was wondering if these things reanimate.

Shocking.

No.

Oh, they do.

Oh, and that stupid beetle stunned me.

Look at that.

Ah, they interrupted me again.

The most annoying thing is you get

interrupted

whilst trying to charge it.

Yeah, so it's pretty good build.

It does require a bit of patience, but the

damage is pretty good.