Ultimate StunLock Mercenary Lightning Build for Path of Exile 2： Fast Leveling & High DPS!

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Welcome back to a new video. So I've just

found the best Galvanic Shards lightning

build for Mercenary in Path of Exile 2.

So we're going to be foregoing and

ditching shock because we're going to be

using this gem called Electrocute. It

means supported skills can no longer

inflict shock. Instead what it does is it

now builds up Electrocution, which instead

stuns them. So we also have, uh,

Leverage, which gives you a 50% increased

critical hit chance against immobilized

enemies. Immobilized basically means

stunned enemies, so includes Electrocuted.

Um, it's kind of misleading in the

description because I thought it meant I

have a 50% critical hit chance against

stunned enemies, but actually it just

means you only get a 50% increased

critical hit chance. So if your critical

hit chance was 10%, you would get 5% bonus

because 10— 50% of 10%— I mean, 50% of 10

would be 5. So really you'd only get like

5% bonus, but anyway, it's better than

nothing and it gives you bonus crits. So

my current crit strike is 14.75%,

so I probably get 7% bonus to crit. So

it's like 22% crit chance against stunned

enemies. So it's pretty good for crits.

And I've got a bunch of passives for crits

like this one— crit, crit, crit, crit,

crit, increase crits. And then I've got

these electrocutes— increase electrocute

buildup by 15, 15, 15, 45, plus 40, it's

85% increased electrocute buildup. So

basically you're going to be electrocuting

them on your first hit almost. And I'm

starting to get a bit bored with the

builds because there's not really much

else you can get, to be honest. Because

you need the two-handed stuff, you

obviously need the crossbow stuff, you

obviously need the lightning stuff here

for a lightning build, and you need the

elemental stuff. So it's not— I mean, all

this other stuff is just rubbish.

Attribute increases, bleed— I don't use

bleed— area attack speed while surrounded—

don't care. And then you've got the

grenade stuff here if you do a grenade

build. Increased damage with one-handed

weapons— why is that even in the mercenary

build? Treat. Then you've got weapon swap

speed, boring. Knockback distance,

boring. Dual wielding accuracy,

boring. So these are all rubbish. And the

only other electric stuff is in the

Warrior side of things, which is all the

way— where is it— all the

way over here. And then you get some shock

stuff, but I don't want shock stuff. So

yeah, there's not really much else you can

do with the build, to be honest, because I

don't know what else to get. Or what else

I would want to get. Even if you gave me

100 points, I don't even know what

I'd want. There's nothing in the Ranger—

the Ranger tree's rubbish. It's all just

forking poisons,

lightning resistance.

Yeah, so I feel like the builds are just—

it's just gonna be the same build forever.

Which kind of makes the game kind of

boring now. But anyway,

so the only fun things, fun things to do

now is change the gems, because that's the

only thing that really changes the

playstyle. So look, one shot and they get

electrocuted. Look, they get electrocuted

on the first shot and they just stay

stunned for like 4 seconds. It's really

cool. Look, they just spasm like that.

And then you get these shielded guys who

are really hard to kill from the front.

You just step around them.

So yeah, test out this stun build. It

stuns them straight away, it's really

cool. Try and get a big group.

Look, 2 hits, they get stunned, and we

get that 50% increased crit chance bonus

against them. Look at that,

they just get— they can't even do

anything. Look, they instantly get stunned

or one-shotted. Seems good.

The only thing is you do sacrifice a bit

on the, the damage, the DPS,

because we're sacrificing 2 gem slots that

would have been increasing DPS by 20%.

But instead of that, we're choosing to be

able to stun them and also get the crit

chance increase, which I don't

know if is Is, is it better than just

straight up DPS, constant DPS increase,

which is guaranteed a 20% increase,

whereas you're not guaranteed the crit

even if you are— even if you do have a

higher chance of it. Wow, the wind is

really loud. I hope my internet's

not going to cut out again. Oh my god,

there's so many now. Look at them all just

stunned. It's like, oh my god, I'm gonna

It is like a stun-locking build, isn't it?

I really hope the internet works today.

Yesterday it just didn't work at all.

Today the storm's a bit weaker,

so it seems like the internet's coming

back on. So far so good.

Oh my God, what is that stupid laser beam

with infinite range?

There's like this cable that runs to the

roof of the place I'm staying in, and

that's where the internet comes from, and

I think whenever the wind blows it

rocks the cable and it makes the internet

really weak and unstable.

Easy, easy.

And there's also rats in the roof.

Every night I can hear them scratching.

Freaks me out.

I tried moving I mean, I was sleeping in

the bedroom, but then I tried moving my

bed stuff into the living room to sleep on

the sofa, thinking the rats won't come

into this part. But it seems like the rats

have access to the entire roof,

because they're inside of the roof, and I

can hear them scratching.

So creepy. It's like they're trying to get

inside the realm, the house, the room.

I feel like they're gonna get inside and

then they're gonna start eating my face

whilst I'm asleep. It's like you're in a

World War I trench.

Stupid rats.

Can't we just eradicate them already?

It's nightmare. It's been horrible

nightmare coming here.

Need a

sec. Oh my god!

I'm dead. I'm dead. I'm not dead. I'm not

dead. No no no no no no no no no no no no

no no.

The problem is the ranged enemies are

shredding my health. I need a plasma

I can't plasma blast, there's too many of

Come on, you do such crap damage

against one target. If there's just one

enemy, I don't even bother.

Oh my god, I hate that. That is so stupid.

I'm so dead. Look at my life.

Oh, orange! I can't— I don't have any

room. I don't have any room for the Iron

Crace. I just have to not die.

That stupid— oh my fucking god,

I didn't even get the legendary item. I

can't believe that just happened. I didn't

have enough room, this stupid Fucking

inventory. Fucking stupid fucking game.

I don't know what that iron cuirass was.

What the hell is a cuirass? Stupid looking

word, isn't it?