Fast Leveling with Mercenary Lightning Build in PoE 2

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So I've discovered the best electrical

mercenary build in Path of Exile 2.

It goes like this.

So you'd be using Galvanic Shards, and I

put these gems on it which I find to my

calculations to be the highest DPS-giving

gems for this skill.

You're gonna have the Innovate.

It's gonna give you 35% damage as

lightning damage for 3 seconds when you

kill a shocked enemy.

So you're going to be shocking a lot of

enemies and killing them a lot as well.

So that's going to give you 35% damage

buff, and they're also going to get

Lightning Infusion.

That's going to give you an extra 25%

damage as extra lightning damage.

So you see when you have it on, this is

381 DPS.

If I take it off, the DPS goes all the way

down to 286.

Look, 286, 381.

So nearly over 100 points of DPS just by

having this on alone.

So we also have Primal Armament, gives you

25% more

elemental damage.

And when you take this off, it goes from

381 down to 329.

So it's not as much of a drastic

improvement compared to Lightning

Infusion.

So yeah, it's got 35% plus 25% plus 25%.

It's all bonus DPS.

Now there is another way of doing Galvanic

Shards, and that's by doing— it's by

having, um,

Where is it?

There should be another gem called

Electrocute, but I keep losing it.

I don't know why I keep losing it.

Electrocute, Electrocute.

I don't know why I can't search.

Here.

Now I can't find it wherever.

Anyway, Electrocute basically just removes

the shock ability of Galvanic Shards and

instead lets you do electrocutes, and you

could stun them with Electrocute, and then

you could combine that with— oh, there it

is right there.

Yeah, so you can't shock anymore, but then

you electrocute them, stun them, and then

you can put on this one.

There's so many fucking gems, I can never

fucking find them.

There should be another one where you

increases

your hit crit chance by 50% against

stunned enemies, so that would be pretty

good too.

So you could do that.

Oh yeah, there it is.

So Leverage, and the other one

Electrocute.

Okay, I gotta put them in the same place.

I put them on Flash Grenade just in case I

want it.

So that's like another alternative one.

So for the skills, I

Um, I went for kind of a weird split

build.

Obviously went all the way down to

crossbows to pick up the crossbow damage

buffs, and then also electricity lightning

damage is non-lucky, non-critical hits are

lucky lightning damage buffs.

I've also got this, gives you 10, 20, 30,

40% crit chance increase and also

increased crit chances.

And then we also We've got this one too.

We got crit chance increased by 10, 20,

and then 80% crit chance increase if you

haven't crit recently.

And I've also got this electricity branch

here, 10, 10, 10, 10, and it gives you

shocks.

Shocking hits have 50% chance also shock

enemies in 1.5 meters radius, so you get

more shocks.

And then I also went all the way into the

warrior tree.

So you might think this is kind of weird,

why am I going all the way here?

Because there's some pretty good trees

here.

So this one splits into 2.

It's all crit stuff.

So you get 10% increased hit chance, 20%

crit damage bonus, 20% increased crit

damage bonus, plus 45% increased critical

damage bonus.

So that's like 65% crit damage bonus.

And you got 15%, 15%, plus 35% increased

crit chance.

So if we go into my galvanic shards, you

can see I have got 18% crit chance and a

286% crit damage bonus.

And for Plasma Blast, I've got— I don't

know why it doesn't show crit chance on

this one.

Uh, yeah, I haven't really put the right

gems on this.

It depends if I'm going up against a boss,

I'll put the lightning damage on here and

you watch the DPS go from 3,500 all the

way up to 4,400, so that's pretty good.

But when I'm just grinding mobs, I put my

most best gems on Galvanic Shards, and

then when I'm going up against the boss, I

switch those best gems into Plasma Blast

because that does insane single target

damage.

So yeah, I went for these.

You get increased crit chance by like 65%,

and then you also get increased critical

damage bonus, so your crits are gonna hit

way harder.

And then also went up to here because you

get lightning damage, 30% increased damage

with hits against shocked enemies, and you

get a bunch of lightning damage buffs and

and shock duration.

So Warrior has a bunch of lightning stuff

and crit stuff, which is pretty good for

Mercenary as well.

So we're gonna grab those lightning stuff

and the crit stuff there, and also the

crit stuff there and the lightning stuff

here.

And if you've got enough points, you come

all the way down here, you can get the

crossbow damage multipliers, plus more

lightning stuff here and crit stuff there.

So that's basically the build.

The problem with this game is they spread

out all the stuff that you want, like

lightning damage and crit stuff, across

the whole thing.

So you need loads of points to get all the

way over here and then also get all the

way down there and also get all the way

over here.

So I don't really care about like grenade

stuff.

Don't care, don't care, don't care about

this, don't care about that, don't care

about increased attack speed while

surrounded.

I don't care about all the armor.

I just want the lightning and the crit

stuff, and I think those are the best

ones.

There's a bunch of crit stuff here, but

it's a bit too far away.

We've already got a bunch of crit stuff,

so he's got, got some crit stuff elemental

stuff here.

So you've got a bunch of elemental points

you could put here if you've got an extra

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 points

spare.

But we don't have 10 points spare.

And then for my gear, I got this legendary

chest.

It's called the Ghostwrithe Tattered Robe.

Basically gives you big energy shields,

pretty good.

And this is my bow, that's 48 to 141

physical damage, pretty good.

And I've got these boots, give you 20%

increased movement speed.

And yeah, I've got this helmet.

It's got 26% increased rarity of items

found.

So you see all the blue items I get?

I get loads of items because I've got the

26% increased rarity chance of things

dropping.

So when you go and kill stuff, you

basically just spam galvanic shards into

the mobs of enemies.

But for some reason, I can't find any

enemies right now, even though there were

so many 2 seconds ago.

But that's just how it is, subtypes.

Oh, there's a bunch of enemies, so you

just spam them.

All the flashing electricity is them

getting shocked.

The floating orb means that you just

killed something that was shocked and they

got 35% bonus damage.

You see my DPS on Galvanic Shards is 485

right now when I get the Innervate damage

bonus, so that's pretty good.

And look how much damage it does when it

crits.

That's pretty good damage for an AoE

attack.

Yeah, this feels pretty good.

I can do like 120,000 damage on plus

Plasma Blast when all 3 hits crit.

So that's for like the pure damage build.

And then if you want to go for a different

alternative build like I suggested earlier

You can also do emergency reloads to do

some extra damage in case you need it.

So you can also put on Electrocute onto

Galvanic Shards.

Now it won't shock the enemy anymore, and

all the skills we have into shock stuff is

kind of useless.

So you might want to spec out that and

then go for 50% increased crit chance

against immobilized enemies.

So you get 50% increased crit chance now,

and you're going to be stunning the

enemies instead of shocking So watch this.

Oh, you see little prime things?

It means they're primed for shocks.

Look, they're all getting electrocuted and

spasming out right now.

I'm gonna kill that big fat woman.

Hold on.

So I'm gonna charge up Plasma Blast and do

Emergency Reload, and look at the damage

it does if I didn't get interrupted.

Watch.

Oh, look at the damage in that, and those

weren't even crits.

Watch this.

Watch, they keep interrupting me.

Oh, did you see that?

Oh wow, look, I've got a Sapphire Charm

Bombard Crossbow.

Wow.