Mercenary Lightning： Fastest Leveling Endgame Build for PoE2

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Hello, welcome back to a new video.

So today I'm going to show you how to

absolutely destroy waystone maps in the

endgame of Path of Exile 2 using mercenary

lightning build.

And I recently just got this amazing

crossbow, it's called the Oblivion Core

Advanced, as if the name matters.

I mean, the reason why this is so good is

because it came by default with

adds 1 to 21 lightning damage, and the

physical damage is slightly lower than my

old bow.

So this is my old bow, uh, it's got 64 to

260 physical base damage, but it didn't

have any bonus lightning damage and it's

corrupted.

So I managed to put 2 runes on this and

they both add 1 to 20 lightning damage.

So in total, this does 3 to 61 lightning

damage plus 53 to 213 physical damage.

And you can see the difference.

So my Galvanic Shards now do 1688 DPS,

whereas with my old bow only did 1536.

So the, the only main problem is my old

bow added +3 to level of all projectile

skills.

So now my Galvanic Shards have gone down

from level 17 to 14.

Now I don't really know if that makes much

of a difference.

I'm going to go into the map and see if it

makes a difference.

I'm gonna use this

tier 1 waystone,

but I'm thinking because it's not level 17

anymore, I'm not gonna get 8 bolts,

maybe only 7 bolts.

No, I still have 8.

So 8, yeah, I still have 8 no matter which

one I use.

So I don't really know what difference it

makes going down from level 17 down to 14.

Because look, no, now it's level 17.

I don't really know what that does.

It doesn't seem to make it do more damage

just by having more DPS.

So now I've got— I wonder why sometimes it

just says a dash instead of showing the

DPS.

Oh, you can press Q to enable it.

So I've got 1688 DPS.

Watch how much damage it does.

Look at that.

I just destroy these groups in just a

couple of clicks.

Oh my God,

look at that!

I'm just wrecking everything.

The only problem is when you need to

reload, it's a bit annoying if you have to

keep rolling.

You're not going to be able to reload and

roll at the same time.

God, why are they so vicious today?

Get out the fucking way.

Oh my God, I hate these spiders.

Oh, why is this so intense?

It's only a tier 1.

God, what an intro to the map.

So I might actually just put Innovate

instead of that Elemental Focus, uh, so we

get the 35% damage buff.

I think with that we get even more than

17-something.

So watch this, watch.

We got 1773.

Is that lower?

Oh my God, I wasn't watching, I was

looking at my DPS number.

I just got one-shot by the boss.

Well, that wasn't good.

Okay, anyway,

try that again.

Uh, oh, I got a yellow one here.

See if that drops anything good.

Okay, this time focus.

Oh look, boss right at the beginning.

Oh, he's shredding me.

He's also stopping me from healing.

Need more time.

God, that was close.

He was preventing me from healing.

Oh, jeweler's orb.

Oh,

I got 18,92 DPS.

You get way more DPS when that Innervate

thing is activated.

I can't believe how much I've made my

Galvanic Shards DPS go up.

I remember just a couple of days ago, or

maybe a week ago, the DPS on my Galvanic

Shards was only about 400, 500.

Now it's nearly at 2,000.

I don't know what suddenly made it jump so

much.

I think it's just because I chose the

right gems and I chose the right skills to

go with it, whereas before I was just kind

of randomly doing it.

Oh,

there's a boss.

The DPS on my Galvanic Shot is so good I

don't even need Plasma Blast anymore

to take down bosses.

If I do use Plasma Blast, I usually

one-shot a to shock the boss, but it's

just annoying having to charge up whilst

they're coming at you.

If you can snipe them and they're not

coming at you,

then it's better to use Plasma Blast.

Oh my God.

Oh, oh, I'm going to get stuck!

Oh, that was close.

I nearly got stuck on that bit of rock.

It's always dangerous when you need to

reload and then you get stuck, cuz there's

no way you're reloading

whilst you're stuck and not getting

killed, unless you're really lucky and you

spam roll and then a gap opens up.

But this is Dangerous too.

Back out, back out.

This is a very glass cannon type of build.

Basically got no points in defense or

armor.

Oh shit, oh, that was close.

Emergency reload really comes in handy

sometimes.

Okay, there's a boss up here, up there.

I don't think I could charge a plasma

blast, could I?

Oh, he looks like he's stuck up there now.

Oh, we got little spiders.

Fuck off.

Charge the plasma blast.

He's stuck on the edge of that cliff.

Oh, 2-shot!

Tier 2 Spiral Wraps.

Oh, look at all the gold.

Give me that.

One more boss.

Wow, I got the 40% speed movement buff.

That's the maximum speed you can get,

between 1 and 40.

Uh, it went down to 35 now.

Oh my God,

need more time.

Currently last boss here.

I'm going to get— oh my God.

Oh, tier 2 waystone as well.

Nice.