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POE2 Mercenary: Endgame Waystone Lightning Build - Ultimate Guide!

2025-01-09 · 10 min

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  1. Before the video begins, let me tell you

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  2. about aoea.com.

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  3. Use the code EXPERT to get a 3% discount

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  4. on Path of Exile 2 currency and orbs on

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  5. aoea.com so you can level up faster.

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  6. So today you're gonna try some tier 2

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  7. waystone maps, see how difficult it is.

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  8. I just recently got this really cool

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  9. crossbow.

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  10. It does 64 to 260 damage, which is way

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  11. more damage than my previous crossbow.

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  12. Problem is I accidentally corrupted it I

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  13. don't even know what it means if it's

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  14. corrupted.

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  15. What does it even do?

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  16. Just says certain items can be found

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  17. corrupted or made corrupted, changing

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  18. their properties.

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  19. So what did it even change?

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  20. I don't know what it did, but what that

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  21. means is I can't use my blacksmith's

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  22. whetstone on it now, and I can't add an

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  23. extra rune, which is kind of annoying.

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  24. And I don't think I can use these orbs on

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  25. it either.

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  26. I can't seem to improve it.

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  27. Well, it's way better than the previous

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  28. crossbow because now my galvanic shards do

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  29. 1,305 DPS, which is the most DPS I've ever

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  30. gotten galvanic shards to be able to do.

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  31. And I just put on the highest DPS buffs

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  32. gems on it.

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  33. Uh, problem with this crossbow is it did

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  34. require a lot of strength and dexterity,

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  35. 95 each, so I had to go into this part of

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  36. this— of the talent tree to get extra

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  37. attributes, +10% increased attributes,

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  38. because I just didn't have enough

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  39. attributes from the actual tree.

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  40. So I had to get electricity elemental

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  41. stuff.

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  42. I got some crit stuff here, and I got rid

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  43. of the Giant Slayer stuff.

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  44. I don't feel like that was super useful.

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  45. Um, what else?

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  46. Yeah, I can't really get anything else

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  47. because I'm still leveling up.

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  48. Now put a few points in here for

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  49. projectile damage.

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  50. I don't really know what else I would

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  51. really want.

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  52. I think my build's pretty solid.

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  53. Um, what else?

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  54. Yeah, I guess I'll try that tier 2 map.

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  55. I did have some tier 5s, but I died and I

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  56. lost it.

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  57. Which one?

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  58. The Maya.

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  59. I've only got one tier 2.

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  60. See if I can buff it more.

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  61. That was more like a bad buff.

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  62. 30% reduced flask tasks— flask charges.

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  63. So yeah, see how difficult this is?

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  64. It should be pretty easy because I have

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  65. done a tier 5 before and finished it.

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  66. The problem is you get unlucky and you get

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  67. stuck.

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  68. And they will gang up on you.

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  69. Oh my God, look at the damage!

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  70. I just 2-shot all of them.

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  71. The damage on this Galvanic Shards is just

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  72. insane now.

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  73. 1,300 DPS.

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  74. Look at the damage it does.

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  75. You just mow the enemies down.

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  76. Oh, look at that, just one-shot them.

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  77. My damage is so good,

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  78. and it really has to be because sometimes

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  79. you get trapped and you really need to

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  80. just mow them down to get out of the way.

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  81. God, look at my galvanic shards.

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  82. Sometimes the maps are really annoying.

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  83. You can't tell if it's like the edge of

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  84. the map

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  85. and then get stuck on the bit of

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  86. environment.

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  87. Seems pretty easy so far.

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  88. Oh, I saw them.

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  89. Hmm,

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  90. where

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  91. are the bosses?

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  92. Oh,

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  93. I just 2-shot them.

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  94. Yeah, I think this build is probably one

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  95. of the best I've made so far.

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  96. Why,

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  97. oh great Chuck!

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  98. Oh my God.

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  99. Oh, there's one of the bosses.

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  100. I think

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  101. usually I switch to Plasma Blast to kill

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  102. the boss.

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  103. Sometimes you don't really have to, but

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  104. I'm doing pretty good damage with Galvanic

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  105. Shards.

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  106. You might as well though, because it

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  107. speeds it up.

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  108. How's he still shooting me?

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  109. Watch this.

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  110. Oh,

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  111. I just 2-shot him.

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  112. Uh, which way?

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  113. Oh, there's one.

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  114. Charge up the plasma blast.

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  115. Oh, I just one-shot him!

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  116. Did you see that?

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  117. I'll one-shot the boss.

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  118. Me pockets are full.

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  119. Should be just 2 left.

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  120. Oh, it's saying this one over here.

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  121. He's probably here.

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  122. Oh no.

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  123. Not good.

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  124. Oh God,

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  125. it's so far away.

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  126. Oh, there it is.

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  127. Are they Blight Barbs?

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  128. I don't even need the Plasma Blast, just

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  129. use Galvanic Shards on it.

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  130. Easy, map complete.

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  131. Another tier 2 map finished.

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  132. I've got to finish 4 more now.

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