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Path of Exile 2： Lightning Mercenary Build - Fast Leveling to Endgame & Insane Damage!

2025-01-28 · 8 min

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    Before the video begins, let me tell you

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    about aoea.com. Use the code EXPERT to get

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    a 3% discount on Path of Exile 2 currency

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    and orbs on aoea.com to level up faster.

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    Back to a new video. So I recently found

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    out the best, most overpowered lightning

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    build for mercenary in Path of Exile 2,

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    really good for endgame. And we're gonna

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    do endgame waystone map, and you can see I

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    destroyed everything and I've got lots of

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    cool loot. I've got this orange

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    quarterstaff. So the build goes like this.

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    Basically, you're going to be using

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    Galvanic Shards 99% of the time.

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    So I've got Galvanic Shards, got DPS of

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    876, and I've got Lightning Infusion,

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    Heft, Super Critical, and Primal Armament.

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    That basically just gives you 20 or 25%

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    DPS boosts, and that's how you get the

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    most damage out of it. I don't really like

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    Super Critical sometimes. I think Maybe

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    Innovate's better because that'll give you

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    an extra 35% DPS if you have critted— I

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    mean, procced the shock thingamajig,

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    which happens quite a lot. So when you

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    shoot an enemy with lightning and they

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    have lightning on their body, it means

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    they're shocked and they will now receive

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    35% extra damage from you thanks

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    to Innovate. So you see the orb spinning

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    around you, that means you just recently

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    killed a shocked target. See, this one's

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    shocked. Well, he wasn't shocked anymore.

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    So, so this one's shocked, now he's dead,

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    and I've got the spinning orb. That could

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    be 35% extra damage. My Galvanic Shards

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    DPS went up to 1177, so that's a big boost

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    in DPS. And as

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    you can see, I leveled up Galvanic Shards

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    to level 15, and I've got 9 maximum bolts

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    in my Galvanic Shards, which is quite a

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    lot for Galvanic Shards. And it just means

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    I can shoot 9 times before having to

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    reload, possibly more because I've got the

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    special perk in the talent

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    tree, which lets you have a 15% chance

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    crossbow attacks do not consume a bolt.

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    And then this is my talent tree. I've got

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    lightning, lightning, lightning, crit,

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    crit, crit, elemental stuff there, and

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    lightning stuff. And I've got attack

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    power, attack damage, crit stuff,

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    double-handed weapons. So that's build,

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    that's how it goes. And we're just gonna

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    do this map. Yeah, I'll show you DPS.

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    And sometimes you go up against a boss,

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    you want to switch to Plasma Blast.

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    That's really good DPS, 8,000 DPS.

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    And I just put these on, I forgot what

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    they do, it doesn't really matter. And you

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    just kill these and then you get the gold

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    and you roll out of the way.

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    And shoot them all,

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    and you get that.

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    And you basically just do this over and

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    over and over again, and it's so much

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    fun. Love this game so much.

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    And then you gotta find all the yellow

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    Well, I was killing everything.

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    Oh, there's one. So I want to kill that

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    Cool. Oh, there's another one.

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    Charge up plasma blast.

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    Pretty good.

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    It takes a long time to charge. But you

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    can usually one or two-shot enemies with

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    it. Look at all that gold, got so much

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    loot. I'm gonna go back to town and sell

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    it so I can get enough gold to maybe

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    try out a different build. Go to this guy,

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    sell all the stuff. Oh,

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    um, no. Oh.

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    A quarterstaff. Boring.

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    I never get any orange weapons or loot

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    that I actually want. It's always for some

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    other class. Useless.

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    Grab all this. I've got 58,000

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    gold now. Nice.

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    Don't get trapped.

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    Oh, it's another boss. It doesn't even

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    look any different to the normal people.

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    Oh, another quarterstaff. Are you joking?

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    And no room as well.

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    Uh, stun duration, daze buildup.

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    As if I care about daze.

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    I guess I can use it. Oh, it's a monk

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    weapon, isn't it? The quarterstaff. I

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    don't want a monk weapon.

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    I don't even know if it's any good. I do

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    have a monk. I don't

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    know why it's giving me so much monk

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    weapons.

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    Back to the town.

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    Get rid

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    of it. 66,000 gold

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    now. Pretty good.

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    How many bosses left are there?

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    I haven't leveled up at all. For some

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    reason, every time I die, I lose all my XP

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    now. Don't understand that. So I'm

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    basically just stuck at level 73 forever

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    because I keep dying.

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    It's like when you die, you lose all your

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    XP. It's so stupid.

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    Oh, why? He just one-shot me. You see,

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    look, I just lost all my XP. I don't even

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    know what that was. There was no warning,

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    no colors on the ground, no kind of flash

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    or anything. Just one shot, you're dead.

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    Oh, stupid. Fucking game this is.

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    God, I hate this game so much. Oh,

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    upgrade my crossbow. I don't even know

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    what that did. So stupid. Whoever designed

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    this game is a complete spastic, I swear

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