Path of Exile 2 Mercenary Lightning GDPS： Fast Leveling Build Guide!

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The best way to level up as a mercenary

using a lightning build in endgame when

you barely have anything— it can be tricky

because first of all you need waystone

keys that you get from this guy called

Doryani, and he sells them for 5,000 gold.

Now I've only got 18,000 gold, and the

problem is when you die in the waystone

endgame maps, you lose all the gold you

got from the map.

So you could start a map, use your

waystone key, and then end up dying and

then not having any money left over from

it.

And then you have to go back to the other

acts and then just grind it out until

you've got 5k gold again, and then you can

buy another waystone.

It is very tedious, but I managed to find

a way to do it easily, so Basically, you

want to get lightning build galvanic

shards with your mercenary, and the build

looks like this.

So we go up here in the warrior build, we

get lightning, we get the crit, we get all

this stuff which is kind of boring,

doesn't do anything, but we need to get it

to get up to here.

And then we got this stuff.

We've got 2-handed weapon, crossbow works,

2-handed weapon, crit stuff, lightning

stuff, more lightning stuff and crossbow

stuff.

And I really like this one because you get

15% chance to not consume a bolt, and

you've got 8 bolts.

So when you're spamming a lot of bolts the

chance you won't use a bolt is quite

common, and then you'll have more than 8

bolts to shoot at.

And then we've got lightning here, and

then you can also go, uh, elemental

ailments here if you have enough points.

And I've got some crit stuff there, more

lightning stuff here.

So that's the build.

So basically what you do is you go onto

the map device

and then you just pick a node

Like that.

And we could try a tier 2, but I'm trying

to build my cash reserves back up because

I blew 80,000 gold respeccing so I could

try a different build.

But that build was kind of rubbish, so I

went back to my lightning build because I

think Galvanic Shards really is the best

skill out of all the others.

Like, Explosive Shots are okay,

but it's no Galvanic Shards, let's be

honest.

Why is this all electric?

It's kind of weird.

So yeah, Galvanic Shards does that.

Oh wait, I didn't show you the gems.

Hold on,

I'll show the gems.

So gems, we got Lightning Fusion, Heft,

Innovate, and Primal Armament.

Basically they all just buff elemental

damage and lightning damage,

and one of them gives you the spinning

orb, which gives you 35% damage against

shocked enemies, which is pretty good.

I mean, you get 35% bonus damage against

anything after you killed a shocked enemy.

I don't know why the ground is all

electrified.

Guess I'm not the only one running an

electric build.

It was really tough though because I

respecced this crap build.

It was not working.

I went back to my Galvanic Shard build,

but I didn't have lightning specs.

I didn't have any gold to respec it.

I kept dying.

I couldn't get the waystone keys because

they cost 5k, but then I finally— I tried

to play a bit more carefully and then I

Managed to work my way up to respec my

build.

Now I'm good again.

You can get into like a dangerous down

spiral.

Oh my god.

Which basically means you can't do endgame

anymore because you don't have any gold to

buy the keys.

You go back to normal Act 3.

Crawl mode.

Stench Bones the Sickening, what a name.

Look at all this loot,

precious gold.

The problem is if you die now, you're

gonna lose all this gold and all this

stuff.

So what I did is before I died, I would go

and spend the money on what I needed, like

refunds and more keystones.

That way, even if I do die, I've already

bought the stuff I wanted to buy with the

money.

Chaos Ore, what's that?

Removes a random modifier.

I don't know what that did.

Oh my god, no,

no, no!

That just reduced the damage of my

crossbow by nearly 50%, and now my

Galvanic Shard DPS is down the toilet.

Well, that was not good.

It's replaced the physical damage with

cold damage.

This crossbow used to be so good, now it's

just rubbish.

I need to get a new crossbow now.

That crossbow was so good, I kept doing

the random modifier thing on it, and now

it's just rubbish.

Where can I even get a new crossbow?

Where's the other NPC?

Can't believe that.

I don't need cold damage.

Why do I want cold damage for?

No, these crossbows all suck.

Why is the damage so low?

And these are not even level 70 items.

Oh, I ruined my crossbow.

Well, it should still be okay.

Maybe these crossbows are better.

Loads an additional bolt.

I might be able to buff that crossbow up.

Where is it?

Maybe I can buff this one up.

Oh, now this one does lightning damage,

but only a tiny bit.

Oh, 3 to 46 lightning damage.

Mm, I have to stick with it, I guess.

The gambling elements in this game really

do screw you over.

God, the mercenary character, the voice

actor sounds so stupid.

Stupid idiot.

Why does he just yell these dumb insults

at the

enemies?

Dickhead!

Well, the main thing is, uh, the damage is

still pretty good.

And we got momentum.

Oh, waste ring, give me that.

How expensive?

I mean, 5k gold when you've only got like

10k gold is half your gold.

They're not cheap.

Oh, why can't I— he's not shooting.