BEST MERCENARY AOE LVLING DPS Build ｜ Path of Exile 2 INSANE MERCENARY FRAG SHOT Build (Lvl 30+)

Hello, welcome back to my new mercenary

AOE Path of Exile 2 build for AOE grinding

and leveling up as quickly as possible.

So we're mostly just going to be using

Fragmentation Shot, Fragmentation Rounds,

and they look like this.

And these are the gems I have on it.

I've upgraded it to have a 3rd gem, so we

have 3 gems, which is pretty good.

I have Martial Tempo, which increases the

attack speed by 25%.

I have Ammo Conservation, which gives you

a 25% chance to not consume a bolt, and

also Double Barrel, which gives you 30%

less reload speed and loads an additional

bolt.

And I also have this item, it's called

Bushwhack Lizard Scale Boots.

And what this does is— I

forgot what it does— it pins enemies with

physical damage.

So when you hit them with your bolts,

they're gonna get pinned 100% of the time.

And then as for the skill tree, I've

basically gone all the way down to the

Outer Rim to get this crossbow stuff

because the crossbow stuff's pretty

good.

And obviously that's what you want as a

character that uses a crossbow all the

time.

So I did diverge into this bit just to

grab the 10%, 15% stun buildup, 10%

projectile damage.

And this one, Heavy Ammunition, gives you

40% increased projectile damage plus some

other stuff.

So that's pretty good, and it's not too

far to reach into it.

And then I focus the rest of my points

just to go all the way down.

These just give attributes, so that's a

bit boring.

And then I've got a couple in here Because

they also give projectile damage

increases.

And I'm going to get these next, but

really you want this one.

You want the crossbow stuff because you

get 12% increased damage with crossbows,

12%, another 12%, so that's like 36%.

And you get this one, 15% chance for

crossbow attacks to not consume a bolt.

So in combination with that gem, because

we've already got this one, 25% chance to

not consume a bolt, plus that 15%, we've

got 40% chance of not consuming a bolt,

which is pretty good.

Sometimes you can really lucky, you can

shoot like 6 or 7 bolts in a row without

having to reload.

So we've also got 10% crit chance, 10%

crit chance, 10% crit chance.

And also this one's really good, Power

Shots.

You get reduced attack speed with

crossbows, but you get 80% increased

critical damage bonus.

So that's pretty good, 80%.

And also 15%, 15% reload speed, and 25%

increased damage with crossbows for each

type of ammunition.

So that's a lot of damage plus stuff, so

that's good.

So the way that it works is by default we

have 2 bolts in our fragmentation shot,

but we've got 40% chance of not using a

bolt.

So it might do— it might do something like

2, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3,

1, 2, Well, it's kind of random.

Sometimes you can get like 5 or 6 shots in

a row.

So yeah, you've got good rapid fire

because you've got that 25% speed

increase.

And yeah, it's basically going for speed

increase and not use a bolt gems.

You could go for more damage, but I prefer

to go for the random chance of not having

to reload plus speed.

Yeah, it's pretty good.

So I've been using this build to clear

large enemies of mobs.

And also bosses, and it's been going

pretty well so far.

So as you can see, even without damage

modifiers, you do quite a lot of damage.

Oh, that's one of the bosses.

I didn't really want to do that yet, but

okay, we can have a go at the boss.

Although for bosses, you might want to

switch out something.

Oh, it spawned me back at the beginning of

the map instead of at the boss.

Okay, I guess we're not doing the boss.

Whatever.

I think for bosses, you might want to

switch in for the poison thing, because

the poison debuff helps you do a bit more

damage.

Otherwise, the boss fights just take

insanely long.

But for these packs of mobs, I find that

just spraying at them with, with

fragmentation rounds and rapid speed

without reloading is pretty effective.

See how many shots we're getting off there

without having to reload?

And things die pretty quickly anyway, so

you don't really need stuff like 35%

physical damage boost.

What would make it even better is if you

can get a crossbow that loads an

additional bolt, but I haven't found one

yet.

I've been trying to gamble buying it from

the merchant vendor, but I can't seem to

get one yet, and I need more gold.

So also, you might not know this, you can

actually put a bow as your secondary

weapon and you get the benefits from its

attributes.

You can use the bow like this, like— oh,

you need the Bow Shot equipped.

Where is it?

Bow Shot.

Yeah, then it automatically equips it.

You can use the bow, but because we're not

a Ranger

Because we're not a Ranger, we don't have

any bow skills, so it's kind of pointless.

Oh, there's a boss.

Yeah, this time I'm trying to get

one-shot.

Oh my god, he just one-shot me again.

I can't believe it.

That boss is so annoying.

We're not very tanky with this build.

We didn't really get evasion perks or

anything.

Probably need to level up a few more times

to take on that boss, really.

So yeah, you see the chains when I hit

them?

That's because we got those boots.

The orange legendary boots gives you

physical damage is pinning, which is

pretty damn good.

Look, see, they all get chained down, they

can't move.

This feels Kind of evil, and running

through the jungle just massacring this

monkey.

Monkeys getting slaughtered.

Well, they're evil monkeys, aren't they?

Look, they got little baby monkeys, just

massacring the family.

Sharp Stink.

There's actually perks where you do more

damage against rare bosses, like, well,

not bosses, but like mini bosses,

which would be nice because it takes ages

to kill them.

Oh, I got a gem and an orb.

What does Vow Orb do?

Modifies an item, corrupts it.

Oh, I can do that on my skills.

I can't do it on Frag Shot.

I can do it on

Ripwire, Ballista, Galvanic Shards,

Explosive Shot.

I'll do it on my Ballista.

Corrupt.

Oh, now I've got 3 sockets,

but it's corrupted.

I don't know what that means.

I haven't really used the ballista much.

I guess it's okay, I don't really find it

necessary.

And I got a gem, didn't I?

Uh, I don't really want to upgrade this

stuff.

Yeah, there's so many orbs and things,

it's confusing.

You lose track of what does what.

There's so many little gems and things

that you can right-click to upgrade stuff.

Yeah, so this is my AoE build.

So the ballista does this,

it just pins them down and it also

attracts the aggro

and gets one-shot, so it ends up just

dying straight away most of the time.