POE2 Mercenary： Lightning AOE Build - Endgame Insane Damage Guide!

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Hello, welcome back to a new video.

So today I'm going to show you my ultimate

DPS for Galvanic Shards for Mercenary on

Path of Exile 2.

So I finally got myself a new orb thing,

Jewel Orb, so I can now get 4 support gems

on my Galvanic Shards, and I've put the

maximum DPS gems that you can get on

Galvanic Shards, and I now have 1,033 DPS.

I put Eternal Elemental Focus as my 4th

one, gives you 25% more elemental damage.

See how much DPS bonus that gives you just

from having that on?

And you do lose the ability to shock

enemies, but I don't really care about

that.

So I also got Heft, gives you 30% more

maximum physical damage, and Primal

Armament gives you 25% more weapon

elemental damage, and Lightning Infusion

gives you 25% of damage as extra lightning

damage.

So we're just going to go for pure damage

and screw everything else like shocks and

ailments, because who cares.

And then for the skill tree,

I've been doing some fiddling with it, and

I took out all the crossbow stuff, and I

just left these 2 in because they give 12%

increased damage with crossbows.

And I've also got this one.

This is quite interesting because it gives

you A bunch of bonus damage and attack

speed bonuses, and you also get increased

Culling Strike threshold against elite

enemies.

So that's the blue named ones and also the

yellow named enemies.

You'll get extra bonus damage and speed

buffs against them, which is pretty good.

So then we also got rid of all the crit

stuff.

I got rid of all the crit stuff there, and

I got rid of all the crit stuff here.

So we got no real crit bonuses, and we

went just purely into damage.

So I still got the elemental buffs.

And I got this, I got some projectile

damage increase by 40% here, and I also

got 20% projectile damage increase there.

And I got these increased attack damage by

8, 8, and 16, so that's like

32% increased attack damage.

That also contributes to the DPS on

Galvanic Shards.

And then I also still got these projectile

damage,

and what else?

I got 2 here as well, so projectile

damage.

So basically you're just not really

focused into any area and you're kind of

spread out so you can pick up all the

projectile damage bonuses, attack damage

bonuses, and Get all the lightning attack

damage bonuses, get all the elemental

bonuses,

get rid of all the crit stuff.

And yeah, so basically it's like pure DPS.

Well, I think that's it really.

I don't really know what else.

I don't know why there's dual wielding.

I didn't know mercenary can actually dual

wield.

Uh, maybe this would be good— attack speed

increases.

But yeah, for now with the points I have,

I just went for this kind of build that

has given me 1,033 DPS on Galvanic Shards.

Yeah, having the 4th support gem really

increases the DPS.

So look how much damage Galvanic Shards

does now.

It does insane damage.

Okay, so we're not really gonna be

critting as much as we used to be, but

we're not really gonna be relying on the

randomness of crits.

And also, we can't shock enemies anymore.

See, look, I can just destroy these

individual targets.

So we don't really do shocks anymore, but

we still chain between enemies.

Look at the damage,

look at the damage, look at that.

Every single hit just hits like a truck

and it's not even a crit.

We don't really need crits anymore because

our base DPS is so high.

Look at this group of enemies, you just

destroy them.

Look, look at that, even though they're

blue names because we got all those

bonuses against elite or unique enemies.

It doesn't matter if they're unique or

elite, they still get shredded.

Look, this guy's a blue name

and he just gets destroyed.

Oh,

chest!

You get so much gold doing the endgame

maps.

I was up to 130,000 gold.

I just respec'd a bunch of stuff, cost me

about 50k gold.

But you just get so much gold from these

maps.

Look, 200 gold just from a little chest.

Look at these enemies, how they just get

shredded.

It's good to bunch them all up and then

they get chained more easily.

I guess it's a bit unfortunate we can't

shock enemies anymore because that would

give you 20% extra damage against them

when they're shocked, but we, we get the

25%.

I mean, you could use the Close Quarter

gem and get a 25% damage buff and still

keep shocking enemies.

So where is it?

Uh, Close Combat, and put that instead of

Elemental Focus.

Now the DPS goes down to 881 because it

doesn't show you the 25% more damage

you're getting from from being close to

enemies, but you are getting it.

Maybe it shows up when you're near— oh, it

does!

997.

Fuck, I nearly died.

Yeah, it went up to 997 when it detected

I'm near an enemy.

Oh, that's like a boss.

Let me get my plasma blast out.

I keep pressing Escape by accident instead

of the potion.

This guy's just gonna come straight up to

me.

Oh, I need— I 2-shot him!

Did you see that?

I just 2-shot the boss.

So we should have our shock ability back

now.

I'm not seeing it pop up,

but if I go near this enemy, you see the

DPS goes up to

It's not changing.

I did see it go up to 997.

Oh, golden chest.

Yeah, they're getting shocks now.

They're getting the shock debuff.

Whoa, look at all the gold!

So now we get the 25% damage for being

close to enemy plus the extra 20% damage

from them being shocked.

So it should do even more DPS than with

the other one.

Oh my god, look at the damage!

The only thing holding me back is it takes

ages to reload.

Look at this reload speed, it's a bit

terrible.

God, this damage is so good.

God, these blue guys getting destroyed.

Destroyed.

Everything gets wrecked.

Look at that.

Oh.