BEST Warrior AOE⧸SHIELD LVLING build - Path of Exile 2 build guide

Hello, welcome back to a new Path of Exile

2 video. So today we're going to be

talking about the best AOE tanky Shield

Warrior build guide that will be really

good for AOE grinding and leveling up and

getting through the early stages of the

game as quickly as possible. So the main

points of this build is we're going to be

very tanky, we're going to be trying to

minimize the damage we're taking whilst

maximizing AOE damage from the Shockwave

Totem. I find this build to be extremely

good against large groups of enemies,

which is where you're going to be fighting

most of the time. And it's also good

against single targets and also bosses. I

found that against certain bosses, you can

just spam your totems at it whilst

focusing on blocking and dodging, and the

totems will do enough damage to be able to

actually take down the boss. It's a really

fun way to play the game, and it's kind of

difficult to see what's going on sometimes

because there's so much AoE explosions

going on. Okay, so let's have a look at

what kind of gear and skills we need to

make this playstyle actually work. Okay,

so first of all, I want to show you the

passive skills. Obviously, we're going to

go for the melee damage, increased melee

damage. That's also going to increase the

damage that your Shockwave Totem does.

And then we've also got some increased

melee damage there, more melee damage.

And then we've also got some armor buffs—

80% armor buffs, 15%, 15%. So this is just

for defensive stuff, blocking. That's kind

of boring. Now this is where it gets

interesting. So you've got this one here.

This is going to buff your totem damage—

16%, 16%, 20% totem

placement speed. And Carved Earth, 20%

increased totem damage. So that's going to

buff your totem damage immensely. So get

all these. Increased totem life, and also

go for this one, Strength Buffing,

because this one's going to lead to this

one. So you go all the way down here,

you've got more totem damage increasing—

15% increased totem damage, 16% increased

damage. But this one's really cool,

Ancestral Artifice. This will allow you to

have one extra totem summoned. And this

one, Ancestral Mending, is also really

cool because you'll regenerate 1% of life

per second whilst you have a totem, and

we're going to be placing 3 totems. Okay,

so as you can see, 1, 2, 3, I can place

3 totems at the same time all blowing

themselves up. They blow up twice and then

they disappear, then you have to relaunch

them out like that. So the way you get 3

totems out at the same time is you're

gonna need the gem here, um,

Overabundance. And it's going to let you

put down one extra of the totems, but it

will mean that the totems will be out for

half the time that they usually would be

out. But that's okay because now we have 3

of them all exploding simultaneously. So

you've got 3— boom, boom, boom. So that's

going to do massive AoE damage. And then

combined with Shield Wall, uh, Shield Wall

is also pretty good. So Shield Wall

basically does this, puts up a wall of

rocks, and these explode when the shield—

I mean, the Shockwave Totem explodes, it

will blow up the Shield Wall to do bonus

damage. So that's all really cool. So

Shield Wall, um, yeah, it does damage when

it explodes. So what we do is you put down

a bunch of totems, you also put down a

Shield Wall, it's going to explode the

Shield Wall, everything's just exploding.

And then for another explosion, you've got

Sunder. Sunder does this. It shoots out

a load of rocks and blows them all up.

I'll show you Sunder quickly here. So it

slams the ground creating rolling fissure,

damages enemies. Number of enemies hit by

the wave will release a shockwave damaging

other enemies, and it's going to do

bonuses. It's got loads of bonuses: 100%

increased crit damage, uh, consumes fully

broken armor, causes shockwaves from up to

5 enemies in each area. So you can also

put stuff like Hourglass, increase damage

by 40%. You can also put Execute,

increases damage by 40% when the enemy

have low life, which is below 35%. So

there's loads of different things you can

do depending on which of these gems you

put in the slots. It's up to you really.

I also put Brutality on the Shockwave

Totem to increase damage by a further 35%

more physical damage. So yeah, we're just

stacking loads of damage. And Shield

Charge is also really useful It basically

does this and bashes into them.

It also does really high damage, so if

you've got a couple stragglers left over

you want to finish off, that's a pretty

good way to finish them off. Okay, so I'll

show you how the mechanic works. So you

just grab some enemies like this, spam

down your totems, and then raise your

shield so you're blocking. And you want to

be blocking most time until you get the

Primed for Stun orb show up. And then you

can finish them off with a Bone Shatter.

So you've got loads of tools at your

disposal. So look, Bone Shatter, Shield

Ram. If there's still one standing, you

can just do Shield Ram, see how much

damage it does, and then just do some

melee strikes. You really won't be doing

melee strikes most of the time because

you've got so many other tools, and melee

strike's kind of rubbish. So you put 3 of

those down. Maybe do a Sunder,

a Shield Bash, run into them, and they

usually get stuck where the totems are

placed, so it creates like a barrier. Put

those down, shield up, Shield Bash,

Bone Shatter. That also does like an AoE

effect. Sometimes it misses

though, which is kind of annoying. See how

much damage that one did? So you've got

loads of damage and loads of defense

because you're basically just holding your

shield up all the time whilst your totems

do AoE damage. So you

don't even have to do anything really.

I really want to get more enemies. Okay,

we've got quite a lot of enemies here, so

just put down 3 totems, a shield wall,

shield up, and Try and shield bash out of

here and then put more totems down. This

is kind of dangerous actually. Yeah, I'm

probably gonna die here. That didn't go

well. There's just too many and there was

like a mini-boss there. Okay, try that

again. A bit annoying we

lost the mini-boss. Sometimes you do

get overwhelmed and you just can't put the

shield down to put the totems down,

otherwise you get damaged too much.

Do a Sunder,

Bone Shatter.

Taking a load of damage,

but you do have pretty good survivability

considering that these enemies are pretty

tough. I think it's like a dungeon tier

level because these enemies are way

tougher than the normal enemies.

Oh, a gem! Let's see what gem I got.

Oh, so I can get a new thing for Sunder.

Jagged Ground, Fist of War.

So again, place totems, do a shield rush

bash or whatever it's called. Also, for

some reason, when I do Bone Shatter, it

heals me. By quite a lot.

Put up a shield wall. Everything just

blows up all the time, it's pretty funny.

I put this stomping ground effect on it

and it creates aftershocks. I don't really

know what it's doing, like it just

vibrates the ground.

Well, look, that's a lot of enemies. See

if I can survive this time. Do it,

Sunder! There's loads of them stuck there

for some reason.

They're all stuck on the other side of the

bridge.

Damn, these ones are really tough.

The problem is you do run out of mana

quite a lot, so you need to keep doing the

Oh, it was like a little mini boss.

Dropped loads of gold, didn't even notice.

I was barely taking any damage. Okay,

watch, watch, watch. Look at all these

enemies. This would be funny.

Oh my God, they're just getting destroyed.

Put down shield wall.

Yeah, so it's pretty fun. And basically

you just let the totems do most of the

work and then you finish them off with a

shield rush— shield

charge. I keep forgetting what that one's

called. Shield bash, shield charge,

whatever. Got loads here.

So many skills in this game and different

ways you can alter the skills using this

passive skill tree or the gems. Just have

to keep experimenting, but so far I found

this to be pretty effective and fun.

No mana.