Ultimate Lightning Mercenary Build – Melt Bosses in PoE2

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Hello, welcome back to a new Path of Exile

2 mercenary build.

Today I'm going to show you my build that

absolutely shreds bosses.

So we're going to be using Plasma Blast,

one of the most high-powered energy blast

type attacks in the game.

Absolutely melts anything including

bosses.

And we've got 3 gems on it.

We've got Scattershot, which reduces

damage it does by about 20%, but in

exchange for that you get an extra 2

projectiles that shoot out of it for free.

And we also have Primal Armament,

increases the elemental damage of it by

25%, and since we're doing lightning

damage, we will be benefiting from that.

And Close Combat gives us 25% more damage

when enemies are very close to us.

Now that might seem weird considering this

is a long-range attack, but a lot of the

time the boss is going to be right up in

our face and there's not really much you

can do about it.

You can't really kite the boss

efficiently, so you might as well just

give up trying and let the boss get in

your face if it wants to.

Now we're also going to have to be a

little bit tanky because we will be

getting hit in the face a lot whilst we

charge up Plasma Blast.

As you can see, we've got the— we've got

the mighty Silver Fist that I'm going to

be demonstrating the full capabilities of

the firepower.

Okay, so when it comes to the skill tree,

basically what we're going to go for is

maximum damage.

So all the crossbow parts get damaged with

crossbows, got lightning parts, increased

damage with lightning, very

self-explanatory, and penetrates more

electric resistance, so we do more

electric damage.

And elemental attack damage increases by

12% each node, so we've got 5 of those.

And then we go down to 2-handed weapon

damage.

This will give you increased damage with

2-handed weapons, which a crossbow is

actually a 2-handed weapon.

And we've also got some crit chance

multipliers.

And oh look, there's more lightning stuff

up here.

I forgot about that.

Yeah, I got more lightning damage and also

spreading shocks.

Your shocks can spread.

And also electric buildup against shocked

enemies is more shockier.

And then we also got projectile damage and

stun buildup.

So that's basically the build.

And whoa, I did not See that guy there?

So we're gonna test out my Plasma Blast

doing maximum damage.

So it takes about 4 seconds to charge up.

So as you can see— oh my god, I just did

40,000 damage in 3 shots!

So look at his health bar, I've already

done so much damage in just one hit.

So you can also use Emergency Reload to do

bonus damage and increase the speed it

charges up.

It takes quite a long time to charge up,

look, 4 seconds.

And then you also get interrupted quite

often if you get hit hard.

Oh, we got one there.

Oh, that was— I missed the third shot.

So yeah, the de-benefits of this build is

it takes freaking ages to charge up, 4

seconds.

You are quite vulnerable charging up like

this,

and you do miss shots sometimes because my

accuracy isn't the best.

He keeps missing too, but it builds up

stun really quickly.

Look how quickly I built up stun.

And if you can get a crit on this, it

crits all of them.

All 3 shots will crit.

Oh, he's gonna do his thingy.

What?

I thought I sidestepped that.

Anyway, I didn't want to kill him too

quickly, that'd be boring.

So there, look at this.

We've got— I don't know if Close Combat

really would— I mean, I am pretty near to

him.

Maybe this one would be better.

You get increased hit chance by 25% up to

100% every

each second.

So you're gonna get 100% guaranteed crits

every couple of seconds.

I think that's how it works.

That one is so annoying, the Overhead

Slam.

Because then you have to stop charging.

I didn't even—

ah,

no,

I thought he's gonna do the overhead

thing.

I shouldn't have dodged.

Watch, watch, watch.

Oh, he interrupted me.

This is like the other boss.

The what's-his-name Blackjaw, he was

really annoying too because he would do

these overhead slams and one-shot you.

You do need a tanky build.

My build probably isn't tanky enough.

So yeah, it's all about timing.

There's a lot of weaknesses to it, but

once you know what to do— oh, he nearly

got me there— you just need to be able to

charge up your shots safely.

It'll take quite a few tries until you

memorize the boss's attack patterns.

Oh my god, did you see that?

It did 120,000 damage.

I think I got him.

He'll take one more.

And I use this tactic for every boss and I

melt them.

Oh my god, I defeated Jamanra, the end

boss of Act 2, first try using this build.

Oh, I got a whetstone and a book of

specialization.

Oh nice, I got 2 extra skill points.

What should I put those in?

Oh, I can get one of these.

25% increased chance to shock, 40%

increased elemental damage with attack

skills.

Uh, these are a bit boring.

I want to get something juicy like,

um, oh, increased crit chance could be

cool.

Yeah, I might go for that.

I get some strength and I'll put the other

ones into crit chance increased by 10%,

and I'll aim for this one, 25% increased

crit chance.

So that's pretty good.

So I basically, I do all bosses using

Plasma Blast.

Charge up, boom, 3 shots.

It's pretty damn good.

Uh, maybe we can do J'manra because he

gave me so much trouble in Act— I mean, in

the original difficulty.

But then in Cruel 2, Cruel Act 2, Cruel

difficulty, I managed to just defeat him

in the first try using this build.

It's pretty fun.

You can do some massive damage.

I hate how they put the hooded one down

there and you always have to go to him to

identify your items.

Then you gotta run all the way up here

where the vendor is.

Why can't they just bunch them all up

together?

It's just unnecessarily annoying.

Oh, I got whetstone.

Increase my damage by 1 point.

Thanks.

And then I want to show you Jhamandra, one

of the most annoying bosses in the game.

I'm pretty sure he'll respawn.

Uh, I don't know if my game's crashed or

not.

Oh, oh my God, I thought my game crashed.

Okay, so we go to Act 2.

I don't know why it takes such a long time

to open this map.

You go to Act 2 It's funny because in the

Cruel difficulty, which is just a copy and

paste of the first 3 acts, they just flip

the map around.

Look, usually it looks like this.

You see, this Dreadnought is on the right

side, but then on Cruel difficulty it's

now on the left side.

So stupid, isn't it?

So where's— I think it's here.

Um, maybe it's here.

No, it's not here.

How do I get onto the thingy?

Constrictor Queen.

I don't think I've done that boss yet.

Where is— oh, Jhamandra, there he is.

Oh, I have to click there.

It's in a completely different location

compared to the normal Act 2 map.

Okay, so you gotta fight through this bit.

I don't use Plasma Blast for these mobs, I

use Galvanic Shards because This takes too

much time to load up and they keep

spamming you with attacks.

Whoa, look at all the gold I'm dropping.

People like, wow, this game's so

difficult.

You literally just stand here and you hold

left mouse button down and occasionally

use a health potion.

This game is not difficult at all.

And then if it does get difficult, all you

have to do is level up a bit, get a new

piece of gear, or change your build a

little bit to make it easy again.

I'm missing all this gold.

Whoops.

The problem is it tricks you into feeling

like it's easy, and then you Don't pay

attention.

The really annoying thing is when you got

to get through these levels and you can't

because all these stupid mobs are blocking

the way.

Just get out, I don't want to fight you.

Just get out the way.

There's so many of them, they literally

just block every

path up.

Come on, get out the way.

Yeah, I'm dead.

They just never give up.

Come on, reload at least.

Yeah, so annoying.

I just want to get to the boss.

I don't want to fight through 1,000 mobs

again.