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Hello, welcome back to a new video.

So in today's Path of Exile 2 Mercenary

build, I'm going to show you my ultimate,

uh, endgame build for Mercenary using

lightning, mainly Galvanic Shards and

Plasma Blast.

So through these gems and my skill tree,

I've managed to get the DPS for the

Galvanic Shards up to a whopping 714 DPS,

which is probably the highest DPS I've

ever had on Galvanic Shards.

I've also got a 14.75% crit chance with a

200% critical damage bonus, so we are

doing a lot of crits, and when we crit, we

crit pretty hard.

So for the gems, I've got 25% damage as

extra lightning damage.

So if we take it off, watch how much it

goes down from 714 down to 529.

This gem alone is giving us nearly 200

DPS.

So you get 25% of damage as extra

lightning damage, and you do less cold and

fire damage, which I don't really care

about.

And then we've got Heft.

This does 30% more maximum physical

damage.

So if you take that off, it takes all the

way down to 587.

So this gives you massive DPS bonus.

And Primal Armaments gives you 25% more

weapon elemental damage.

You take this off again, it goes down to

617.

So these— without these 3 gems, you'd only

do like 300 DPS probably.

Wait, let me just take them all off

quickly.

Yeah, you only do like 386 without the

gems.

You put them back on, it goes up to 714.

So I don't know how you can get higher DPS

than this.

Maybe this one instead of that one?

No, you do less.

This one instead of that one?

No, you do less.

This one instead of that one?

No, you do the same.

But this one, you lose the elemental

ailment, so you won't shock enemies

anymore with your galvanic shards.

And this one is for crit.

I don't know, maybe the bonuses in crits

will give you higher overall DPS.

I don't really like gambling on crit

chance.

I like just having good strong base DPS.

So for Plasma Blast, when we use that

against bosses or high armored enemies,

we've got the crit chance on it and we've

got— I mean, Scattershot and Elemental

Focus.

But if I'm really struggling, I'll

probably switch out some of these for some

of these to increase this DPS from 6981 up

to— we can get it to like 10,000 probably.

Look, 8,366, 8,400.

Yeah, we can get this DPS up pretty high

if we need to, but because we're usually

using Galvanic Shards, I put my best gems

on Galvanic Shards.

It'd be really nice if I can get a 4th

socket, but for some reason I can't seem

to forget— I just can't seem to be able to

get the Greater Jeweller's Orb to get the

4th gem.

I just can't seem to find it anywhere.

So yeah, we're kind of stuck with 3.

If I can get a 4th gem, it would probably

get the DPS up to 800.

So for the skill tree, um, I got rid of

all this stuff over here.

So we lost the lightning stuff and we lost

the crit bonus stuff from the warrior

tree, but the warrior tree was just taking

up too many points having to go all the

way up here.

So I took those points back off and I put

them into here.

So we've got elemental lightning damage

bonuses, and this one gives you extra

shocking stuff.

And then I'm working to get these ones,

get extra projectile damage.

And I got the elemental damage bonuses

here.

You get quite a lot of elemental damage

bonuses and lightning stuff.

You got lightning damage and resistance

stuff, and you got crit stuff here.

And, uh, got some crossbow stuff.

And I went back into the 2-handed weapon

damage bonus because you get like 40%

increased damage with 2-handed weapons,

plus 12, 12, 12, 12.

That all adds up to your Galvanic Shards

DPS.

And then, uh, what else do I get?

Oh yeah, I got these.

Yeah, increased projectile damage by 10%,

10%, 10%, and also 40% here.

And this one, you get 40% increased

accuracy and 16% increased projectile

damage.

So yeah, quite a lot of projectile damage

bonuses.

I don't really know where to go from here.

I guess just little things.

I mean, you got this bit as well which you

could fill out.

You get 10% increased damage bonus,

projectile damage bonus, piercing enemies.

I don't know if piercing really matters

with galvanic shards.

Uh, yeah, so if you get a few more points—

I'm already level 70, so I don't know how

many more levels there are, I don't know

how many more points I'll be able to get.

Um, I guess it's just fleshing out and

building upon this.

And then for gear I recently got this

ring.

So this ring gives you an extra 15%

increased lightning damage.

So without it, Galvanic Shards does 678

DPS.

With it, it goes up to 714.

So that was a pretty good find.

Just check the vendors.

Sometimes they might have like a ring or

an amulet that has lightning damage

bonuses.

I might go check it now if you go back to

the ziggurat.

So I realized that the Acts 1, 2, and 3

story stuff Once that's finished, you then

get to this endgame stage where you got

this map device,

and it's like,

it's like a tower, I guess.

And you've got these nodes, and you need

these waystone key things to enter the map

node.

And if you die once, you get booted out of

it, which is kind of harsh.

So you start off here and then you can

just choose which nodes to go on.

And the whole goal is you defeat the

golden unique enemy in the map, and

they're usually really easy.

The problem is there's so many enemies in

the map and they swarm you, and if you

lose concentration and die, you gotta

start all over again.

So I went to these vendors

and then just check what they've got for

sale.

See if there's any lightning damage

multipliers on some of this gear.

Like, um,

oh, adds 1 to 11 lightning damage to

attacks.

I don't know if that's worth trading in

what I have.

So the ones I currently have give me a lot

of bonus to accuracy, a lot of bonus to

armor invasion, 34 to max life, increased

damage, critical damage bonus.

Lightning and fire resistance.

I'm kind of tempted to get that because

it's a higher level, 59 versus my level

45.

If I can buff this up a bit—

yeah, I might actually get that and see

how it improves galvanic shards.

So then you use one of these orbs.

Which one?

This one, the Regal Orb.

So that just added 4 mana per enemy kill.

It's kind of crap, isn't it?

I need more of those Regal Orbs to buff

it.

So by switching it out for this, I will be

losing a

lot of accuracy rating.

Let's see how much damage it increases my

Galvanic Shards by if I equip it.

So it goes from 714 to Eh, it went down.

665.

I don't know why it went down.

I don't know why.

This should give me 1 to 11 lightning

damage to attacks.

Uh, that's not really the same as the

ring.

The ring gives you 15 increased lightning

damage.

15%.

This one just gives 1 to 11.

Damn it, I didn't read this thingy.

I'm gonna refund it, give it back.

Now I lost my Regal Orb.

Yeah, I thought that would give me a bonus

in lightning damage.

So let's see what this one's got.

Uh, this one's got elemental resistances.

I guess you gotta wait for new stuff to

arrive in the vendors.

Um, but anyway, so yeah, for the build— I

mean, the playstyle

You basically just spam Galvanic Shards at

everything and they just die.

We've got 7 bolts per reload,

so I'm starting— so look at this, it's

really good against these big swarms of

enemies.

It really does good damage now.

I remember using this earlier in the game

and I thought it sucked because it did

such small damage.

Look, even against single targets it's

doing pretty good damage.

Look, the damage is really good now.

I used to use Fragmentation Shot every

time because it was better, but once you

get it up to a good DPS, Galvanic Shard is

pretty good with the lightning build.

It's just a bit lackluster against single

enemies.

What's going on?

It's good against groups of enemies where

it chains.

And the chain damage does loads of damage

compared to just shooting at one target.

I don't know why I'm reloading so slowly.

Have they debuffed me or something?

I've got these really good boots as well.

Hold on,

I really need to get skills to increase my

reload speed.

Look, I've got 29% increased movement

speed.

So I've got these boots, legendary color.

They give you a 0 to 40% increased

movement speed at random when hit.

So whenever you get hit, it's going to

give you between 0 and 40% increased

movement speed.

When you get a high percentage, you can

move pretty quickly, which is nice.

Okay, so I'll just go through this map,

show you how good it is.

There's something weird about this map.

It's making my

reload speed really slow.

I don't know what's happening.

It doesn't usually feel this slow

unless I'm lagging or something.

I don't know.

So yeah, these maps are pretty big

and it's not really anything special to

it.

You just gotta kill everything.

It's just annoying cuz you can die once

and then you get kicked out of it and you

got to start it from the beginning.

So this is the end game, is it?

Endless grinding.

Not even any kind of like—

I mean, at least in Diablo 4 you go around

the open world and there'll be these big

boss encounters or random events, and then

you can see other players and you can team

up with them, and there's like a community

feeling.

And then you can go around the map

together doing world events.

There's nothing like that in this game.

The only time you see other players is

when you're at the town hub.

It just feels kind of lonely.

I guess you could group up and team up

with people.

Oh shit, I hate it when you get frozen

like that.

Whoa, that's a lot of enemies.

You gotta play it really carefully because

you don't want to waste— because if you

die, you basically wasted your whole time

doing this.

You don't get— I mean, you do get the loot

and the gold, I guess,

but it just feels like you die, then you

basically just wasted half an hour

clearing a map.

And you didn't even finish it.

Oh my God, that was close.

Who is freezing me?

It's this guy.

So yeah, the lightning chain is pretty

good.

Definitely increases the damage.

God, this guy's really annoying.

He keeps disappearing.

I'd say just ignore them

because they don't follow you for very

far.

You can just run away and they'll just

give up chasing.

The AI in this game is really rubbish

sometimes.

I've gone up against bosses and they get

stuck, and then I just spam attacks on

them, they can't move.

That's happened so many times.

God, these guys

are so annoying.

Oh my God, fucking hell,

Pushkin!

Jump scared by the cat.

What

is this?

Oh, I finished it!

That was it!

I've only got to finish one more tier 1+

map to finish this quest.

So where's the loot or the boss or

anything?

There's like nothing to gain at— shut up!

It's like nothing to gain here.

So is it over?

Is that it?

Not even any chest or loot or stupid

Fucking game.

That's it.

What's the point?

Wastes my time.