Path of Exile 2 Mercenary Lightning AoE： Endgame Leveling Mastery Build Guide!

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2 build guide.

Lightning build with Mercenary absolutely

destroys everything with this high DPS

build.

So you can see the Galvanic Shards, we've

got, uh, 1,441 DPS, which is Pretty damn

good DPS.

And then as like a single target melting

move, we have Plasma Blast.

It's got 10,500 DPS.

And for the gems, I put on Lightning

Infusion, gives you 25% of damage as extra

lightning damage, and that actually buffs

it from 1,100 DPS up to 1,441 DPS.

So that's a substantial gain in DPS.

And we've got Primal Armament, gives you

25% more weapon elemental damage.

That goes from 1,226 up to 1441.

And we got Close Combat gives you 25% more

attack damage to enemies within 1 meter of

you.

And that's— yeah, you gotta be close to

enemies, um, which we will be.

And then you've got Heft, 30% more maximum

physical damage.

So that will take you from 1243 to 144441.

So those are the gems.

And then this is my weapon.

I've got this bow, does 54 to 217 damage

plus 3 to 61 lightning damage.

It's pretty good.

So watch how much damage I do when I do

Galvanic Shards on these enemies.

It only takes maybe 2 or 3 clicks and

everything dies.

It's really good.

Watch this.

Look, 1, 2, 2 shots, they're all dead.

So everything's just gonna die

in usually 2 shots, maybe a 3rd shot to

finish them off.

And then for the passives, I've got

Lightning damage, obviously got all the

lightning damage.

There's more lightning damage

stuff over here in the Warrior tree over

there, but it's pretty far away.

You need quite a lot of points to get over

there.

Probably need 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,

10, 11, 12, 13, then +5.

Yeah, you need 18 points to get over there

and I just don't have enough points

because I, I like this stuff.

I need these attribute boosters so I can

use my, my weapon.

Maybe I can free up like this one, this

one, but then you're not really gaining

anything, you're just losing stuff to gain

the same thing.

So yeah, maybe in 18 levels' time, when I

level up 18 more levels, I'll have enough

points to go to that lightning branch as

well.

But for now, yeah, that's the talent tree,

it's just fully specced out with

lightning, crit bonus, elemental damage

bonus, projectile damage bonus.

So you just want to go for pure DPS and

not get anything defensive.

So basically you're like a glass cannon.

If you get hit,

well, you got a shield, you got an energy

shield, so that will save you.

And we've got about 1,477 HP points.

But ideally you want to not be getting

hit, which isn't too hard.

You just gotta stay mobile.

You also get this shock ailment, so

galvanic shards— oh, what's that orange

thing?

Tattered robe.

Yeah, so usually— oh, a boss.

And then if you're in emergency, use

emergency reload to give you a damage

boost and speed up reload.

Oh my god, imagine I die and I don't get

the orange thing.

Just keep spamming the potions.

Yeah, so that's dead, these are dead,

these all dead.

Where's my orange thing?

Ooh, tattered.

Oh, I've had that before.

I had the exact same one before.

Let's identify it.

It is exactly the same, just gives you the

energy shield boost.

Boring.

I thought orange things are supposed to be

extra rare and you get the same thing

twice

and you get something that you can't even

use.

I mean, you can use it, but it's not

really for your class.

Wearing a robe as a mercenary is a bit

weird.

So I got here

Really wish I had a mousepad because this

table is a bit sticky.

Yes, I was saying you get shock.

See, when they're flashing with

electricity, it means they've been shocked

and they take 20% extra damage whilst

being shocked.

So that's pretty good.

Oh, look at all that gold.

Did you see the thing they said Elon Musk

was faking playing this game and he got

someone else to level him up and get him

to endgame?

It wasn't him playing it because when he

actually did play it, he looked like he

didn't know what he was doing.

Why would you fake playing a game?

It's such a weird thing to fake.

His true colors coming out.

Not a real gamer.

I mean, I don't bother picking up

everything because they were saying he

didn't pick up the Chaos Orb, which is a

rookie noob mistake.

I can't be bothered picking up most stuff

like that.

'Cause I've already got loads of it and I

don't know what to do with it.

Oh, what's that?

Oh, now it's gonna get tough.

Just back up and back up.

You might want to do a plasma blast Watch

this, watch, watch me one-shot it.

Oh, okay, 3-shot it.

Yeah, so Plasma Blast is really good at

taking out the yellow elites.

Galvanic Shards can take them down, but it

just takes a long time.

So this is probably the best Galvanic

Shards build I've ever tried.

God, look how much damage it does.

I don't even know where I'm supposed to

go— oh, skill gems.

I really want to get, um, the other thing

so you can have 5 support gems on your

skill, cuz then I can add another gem and

add like another 25% damage.

But I don't know where you get them from.

I know you can trade them, but I don't

think I have anything that someone would

want in exchange for it.

My crossbow looks weird.

It's like a circle thing.

It's funny, if you take too long in these,

they eventually show you where the bosses

are.

Why didn't they just do that in the

beginning?

What's the point?

Oh,

orange hermit garb.

Imagine it was the same thing again.

Let's see, I don't have a— oh, I do have a

scroll.

Ooh, increased evasion and energy shield,

20 to dexterity, 59% reduced bleeding

duration.

That's kind of boring.

I barely ever get bled.

My current one gives me 40% increased

armour, evasion, and energy shield, which

is basically the same as what this is

giving.

Mine gives 11 maximum life, reduced

attribute requirements by 30%, which is

better than +20 dexterity.

And mine already has 55% reduced bleeding

duration.

This one only has 59%.

My chest is way better than this orange

chest.

The hell?

How's my yellow chest better than an

orange chest?

Okay, go this way.

I'll break you, I'll break you.

Go down here.

Whoa, look at this.

They get ripped.

Oh my God, I'm gonna die.

I'm frozen.

Oh, I finished it.

Tier 2 waste.