MELT BOSSES with Lightning Damage： Mercenary Build Guide for PoE2

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mercenary builds.

So today I'll show you how to use Plasma

Blast, absolutely melt bosses and do

insane DPS.

I've done almost 150,000 damage in crits.

So you go to Plasma Blast, you want to put

Scattershot.

That's going to give you 2 extra

projectiles.

So it will shoot like this, it will shoot

like this— 1, 2, and 3 shots in

succession.

And we're also going to put on Inevitable

Critical.

That's going to give you a 25% chance to

crit every second up to 100%.

Critting is very important.

So yeah, we're going to sacrifice base DPS

to increase our crit chance, but the crit

chance just gives you such a boost in

damage, it makes it worth it.

I'm also going to put on Lightning

Infusion.

That's going to give 25% of damage as

extra lightning damage.

So you can see DPS says 5,436, and without

Lightning Infusion we've only got 4,293.

So you can try switch that out with other

damage multipliers like, uh, Primal

Armament gives you 25% extra, so 5,436

becomes 5,150.

So obviously Lightning Infusion is better.

And you've also got Heft, increase 30%

maximum physical damage.

So if we put that instead of Lightning

Infusion, we now have 5,221.

So obviously Lightning Infusion is still

better than that.

If you don't mind sacrificing on the

crits, then you can put on 2 damage

multiplier gems so you get 30% max

physical damage instead of the crit bonus,

and then we get 6,066 DPS.

But I think it's worth having the crit

chance multiplier just because you do way

more damage with the crits instead of the

base DPS multipliers.

And then for the actual build, we've just

got a bunch of lightning stuff.

You can see here we've got lightning,

lightning, lightning, crit, crit, crit,

and, uh, more lightning, lightning,

lightning, lightning here.

And more crit, crit, crit, crit stuff

there.

And up here, got lightning stuff there and

crit stuff here.

So that's basically self-explanatory.

I don't really know what else you can get

instead of that.

So you could get rid of these, save all

these points, come down somewhere here,

and then you could put points into

the stupid motorbike people here again.

They're always the same.

It's like 4 same people riding the stupid

motocross bikes.

Up and down the road in front of my house.

Do they not have jobs?

It's Friday, for fuck's sake.

So irritating.

The idea of a good time on the afternoon

is to ride up and down the stupid road on

their stupid motorbikes.

Yeah, irritating everyone with their loud

engines.

Anyway, so

you got 2-handed weapon bonuses here.

You get these instead of maybe going up

all the way here to get lightning damage.

I guess it's kind of up to you.

So I'm on this boss right now.

I want to show how much damage I can deal

on him.

So you build up a charge

and then, uh, yeah, watch this damage.

1, 2, 3.

So I missed one of the shots and the other

one got deflected by a shield, but that's

okay.

And then we do emergency reload, gives you

bonus damage.

So you see the damage does about 30k

non-crit damage.

I think that was— no, it wasn't a crit.

That did about 31,000 damage.

So that one missed the first shot.

We're not getting any crits.

I don't know what the support gem is

doing.

I don't get it.

The support gem is supposed to be giving

me 100% crit chance.

I haven't gotten any crits yet, though

that wasn't a crit either.

Now there you go, that, that was not a

crit.

I had 38,000.

I'm not doing any crits.

I don't know if that gem's worth it then.

Now he's going to do his second phase

transformation into the robot.

Come on, get on with it.

I don't know why these stupid animations

take such a long time.

So that was not a crit either.

38,000.

Oh, that's a crit!

134,000 damage.

Do you see how much damage we did?

Oh, that's a crit too!

132,000.

I don't know why, but when I glance at

this name, it looks like Donald Trump.

If we get 2 more crits, this boss is dead.

That was not a crit.

I don't think we can actually— am I

supposed to stay in the circle or get out

of it?

I guess get out of it.

I cannot allow you to interfere.

Oh, let me go, mate.

Existence is merely energy.

Oh, he's doing his laser beam.

I hate his laser beam.

There's like no way to dodge it because

it— he just follows you around with it and

it shoots so rapidly.

So I might get rid of this inevitable

critical because it doesn't seem to be

doing anything.

I might just put like more Elemental

damage instead because it didn't really

seem to be making me crit more.

I crit once out of 6 or 7 attacks.

So now you gotta watch this stupid

animation again.

Oh, it's such an annoying thing having to

wait for these animations.

Oh, that's a crit!

No, I don't think it was.

I don't actually think we just do way more

damage.

Even non-crits should do way more damage

now.

We're doing 25% extra damage,

so the non-crits do like 36k now.

I think he might have lightning

resistances because he seems like a

lightning user.

Oh, his stupid laser got me again.

Try again.

The eve of the end.

The demon of Azuatu has finally come for

me.

40k base damage, pretty good.

Oh, that was a crit!

200,000 damage!

Did you see that?

194,000.

Imagine you kill him before he goes into

phase 2.

I don't know how you could do more damage

with that.

As long as he doesn't do the laser, I

might survive because I honestly don't

know how to dodge that.

Still no crits.

Oh, there's a laser.

Fucking hell, I hate that laser.

I want to try this other build.

So you got this inevitable critical.

And then put this on.

Super Critical.

You get 100% increased crit damage bonus,

but you get 20% less critical strike

chance.

So that's going to make the base DPS go

down way loads, but you should do way

harder crits if you manage to crit.

But we should be building up crit chance

within Inevitable Critical gem.

Oh, what?

I don't even know what happened.

I want to see how much damage I do if I

crit with this build.

Come on, just shut up and fight.

These bosses talk so much.

Just shut up.

Fuck's sake, worse than a woman.

Whoa,

159,000!

I did bigger crits with the other build,

actually.

Yeah, I think the other build was better.

Ah, you gotta move out of the way of that.

Um, maybe I'll get rid of Inevitable

Critical and I replace that with Lightning

Infusion

to boost the base DPS a bit.

And then if you get a crit with the Super

Critical— I don't know if it's possible

though.

Because your crit chance will be so low

now.

I think that crit, but I only need 2 hit.

That crit, I nearly killed him.

198,000.

If I can get him one more time— are you

even able to kill him before he goes into

phase 2?

Ah, he just went into phase 2.