Best Lightning Mercenary Build in PoE2 – Ultimate Guide for Lvling

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Hello, welcome back to a new Path of Exile

2 mercenary electric lightning build

guide.

So basically we're going to be using

Galvanic Shards to do our main killing.

So Galvanic Shards shoots out a burst

spray of electricity and fries everything

within you.

So we've got these gems for the Galvanic

Shards.

I've got Electric which basically means

you cannot shock anymore with Galvanic

Shards.

But now you can actually do an

electrocution buildup.

So what that's going to do is, um, only

lightning damage from hits with specific

skills contributes to electrocution

buildup on enemies.

Yeah, I don't know what any of that means.

Um, so basically what it means is Galvanic

Shards will no longer shock the enemy.

Instead, it will build up electrocution

buildup, which means you can stun the

enemies using electricity.

By default, Galvanic shards won't let you

do that, but by having this gem, you will

be able to stun lock them using

Electrocution.

So that's pretty good.

And we also have Ricochet, which gives you

a 40% extra chance to chain an additional

time from terrain, which is pretty good.

And obviously we have Elemental Focus,

increase 25% more elemental damage.

And we've also got Voltaic Grenades, and I

put electrocutes primed enemies on hit, so

we shoot out 2 grenades at a time.

So that's pretty good.

And then we've also got Heft, 30% more

maximum physical damage and also 50%

increased critical hit chance against

immobilized enemies.

Actually, I think that could be pretty

good on Galvanic Shard.

So if we put that in instead of Ricochet

and then just, I don't know, chuck

Ricochet here.

So now my feeling is we stun them with

Electrocution and And now they're stunned,

they should have 50% increased critical

hit chance against immobilized.

And it says immobilized includes frozen,

pinned, heavy stunned, or electrocuted.

So yeah, now we should have 50% increased

crit chance against the electrocuted

enemies.

So yes, test it out now.

So there's group enemies

down here and we just spray them, they'll

get stunned.

You see this?

They're spasming like that, that means

they're being electrocuted.

It's pretty good.

So we should also do 50%, at least 50%

plus what we already have, crit chance

against stunned enemies.

So we'll test that out a few more times.

So if you look at the health bar, yeah, it

does pretty good damage sometimes, but its

default damage is not that impressive.

You really need to spam this out to get

most out of it.

So yeah, look at it.

I think those big chunks were probably

crits.

So yeah, I'm really tearing through the

enemies now.

This is way better than what I had before

I started the video, but I didn't realize

I had that— what's it called— Leverage.

Yeah, that's pretty good.

50% chance to critical hit on stunned

enemies.

Oh, that one nearly one-shot me.

Then we've also got stun grenade, voltaic

grenades.

These ones keep going invisible, it's kind

of annoying.

So this is good build for clearing mobs,

it's just these ones are kind of tough.

You want to switch to the plasma blast if

you want to do some single target damage.

They froze me.

These guys are really annoying.

Look, they keep stunning me as well,

and they froze me again.

Fuck off, Jesus Christ.

Yeah, so I use that Plasma Blast if I want

to do high singular output energy damage,

because Galvanic Shards is really only

good against Mobs of enemies.

Oh, is this the boss?

So for bosses, um, I guess I'll show you

the skill tree as well.

So for the skill tree, basically, look at

this mess.

I went in there, I went in there, I went

down here, then up there.

So I took all the lightning perks.

Obviously lightning build, you need the

lightning skill tree.

So lightning, lightning, lightning,

lightning, whatever, crossbow damage.

I got projectile speed and chaining damage

increases.

Oh, what's this?

Oh, oh, I don't even know what Shock does,

to be honest.

Take 20% increased damage.

I need 4 extra points.

I might get rid of these.

I want to get rid of these cuz these just

increase chain I don't really care that

much about Chain.

Quick, before the boss starts.

That's actually really good because then I

could get bonus to electrocution, and then

electrocuted enemies will take shock,

which gives them 20% more damage.

So I'm gonna get rid of these.

I need 4.

I'll put it into here.

15% increased electrocute, increased

electrocute, and then this one, coursing

energy.

So you get 40, 55, 70, 85% increased

electrocute buildup, and then you also get

30% increased shock chance.

Oh wait, but I think my Galvanic Shards

can't shock anymore.

Yeah, supportive skills can't inflict

shock.

Hmm.

Uh, I don't know, I guess you gotta

choose.

Do you want to stun them with

electrocution and get the 50% increased

crit chance, or do you want to shock them

and make them take 20% extra damage?

I think the 50% increased crit chance

should give you more damage.

Oh shit, did I buy it?

I mean, it would be useful to electrocute

them faster, but I was already

electrocuting them pretty fast.

Now I just wasted all that gold.

Now I've got 4 points.

I don't know what to do with the 4 points.

Increased crit chance for attacks

25%.

More crit could be pretty good, or I get

elemental damage.

12%, 12%, 12%, 12%.

Yeah, I'll just get 48% increased

elemental damage instead.

That should give me more damage.

Now we try this boss.

Come on, so slow in this game to start a

stupid boss.

Oh, I haven't started the other generator.

Oh my god, yeah, I need to find the, the

core,

the core thing.

Oh wait, I thought there was gonna be a

boss fight.

Yeah, doing pretty good damage with this

Galvanic Shard stuff.

Now, and then they get stun locked.

Oh my God.