Lightning-Focused Mercenary Build ｜ Path of Exile 2： Tips & Tricks for Maximum DPS

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faster. Hello, welcome back to a new build

for Path of Exile 2 with the Mercenary.

So I designed this build to get myself

through this area because I was really

struggling with this area using Galvanic

Shards. So Galvanic Shards is good against

large groups of enemies Um, but the

problem with this area is it doesn't throw

large groups of enemies at you. It throws

smaller groups like 1, 2, 3, 4, but

they're all kind of tough and they're not

very squishy. So Galvanic Shards didn't

really do a very good job at mowing them

down. So I had to reconfigure my build

to be able to defeat these enemies, and I

think I found a way to really destroy them

easily using Fragmentation Rounds and

Voltaic Grenade. So the problem with the

Plasma Blast is it took too long to charge

up, and these guys are really fast moving,

you just don't have time to charge this up

without getting interrupted. So this thing

is really good for single target damage,

but it's too slow. Uh, Galvanic Shards,

really good for loads of enemies, but it's

too weak against individual enemies. So I

needed something that's kind of like in

between those 2 skills, and Frag Shot

really does fill the hull,

and I put these gems on it. I put

Lightning Infusion, so you get 25% damage

as extra lightning damage. That's really

going to give you like 100 extra damage

for DPS because we got a lot of lightning

damage multipliers on our build. And we've

got Heft, gives you 30% more maximum

physical damage, so it takes it from 343

damage up to 417. And I've also got

Leverage, you get a 50% increased crit

chance against immobilized enemies. So

we've got a base crit chance of 18.5%. So

that's pretty good. Plus 50, we've got

like 70% crit chance against immobilized

enemies. And the Voltaic Grenade, we've

put 25% more elemental damage and 40% more

area damage, which actually does quite a

lot. So without it, it's 1406 damage. So

with it, it's 1968 damage. So it's like

50% extra damage. It's pretty good damage.

And then we got Payload that reduces

cooldown by 70% and also 50% chance

activate a second time. So we're going to

be stunning enemies using Voltaic Grenade

and taking advantage of that extra 50%

crit chance against immobilized enemies.

And then for the build, we've got

electricity here, crit chance in there.

We've got electricity there, extra bonus

crit chance here, and over here we got

crit chance and crit damage bonuses. We

got 45% increase. Crit damage bonus with

this Barbaric Strength. So we've got

really good crit chance and crit damage

bonuses. And then here we've got more

electricity. So that's basically the build

and crossbow stuff there. So yeah, the way

it plays is like this. So you got like a

little group of enemies over there or up

there, you just chuck a grenade as they

come rushing at you. That has a good

chance of stunning them and And frag shots

shouldn't take too long to take them down.

These are pretty tough enemies, you gotta

keep in mind. If you tried doing

galvanic shards on these guys, it would

just take forever. And then you got this

big guy, you can chuck a grenade.

That didn't stun him, unfortunately.

Oh, we did a nice crit there and it just

one-shotted him.

There's a bunch of enemies there. Oh, it

actually activated twice and killed that

guy. So that guy's stunned,

so we should get bonus crit.

Oh, I nearly got me. Yeah, so pretty good

against these guys. Well, there's loads

over there. Let's chuck a load of

grenades. You know what might help? If you

refund some of the passive skills and get

some grenade perks. So I feel like the

grenades are really helping out.

It would be nice if you shot out 2

grenades instead of 1, for example. Look,

he's stunned.

Yeah, I'm not getting any crits for some

reason. 70% crit chance and no crits.

Well, I think that crit—

I really wish it told you when you crit.

You have no idea if it's actually critting

or not apart from seeing a massive chunk

of health disappear more than usual. Why

can't the numbers pop up like on World of

Warcraft? That's what I want.

So if you had some extra points left over,

something like increased grenade damage,

grenades have chance to activate second

time. This one's pretty good, fires an

additional projectile. My current crossbow

doesn't have that because it's just like

pure damage, 57 to 166 damage.

I don't have the load an extra bolt or

load an extra grenade, just went for

pure damage.

See, these guys are tough.

Why graphics keep— it keeps blinking like

that, it's really annoying. The floor

keeps disappearing and loading back in.

Whoa, what's that?

Oh, nice crit. I've also got this gem.

It gives you 100% increased critical

damage bonus, but then you lose 20% crit

chance. So it's basically never gonna crit

because I've only got 18% crit chance. So

then you combine it with this, and this

keeps increasing your crit chance by 25%

each second up to 100%. So maybe you swap

these out. You'll lose some DPS,

but if you can get that 100% crit damage

bonus, that'll be nice damage.

Need a sec.

I can't tell if this is worse or not.

Seems the same,

but you could probably do some nice crits

with Plasma Blast. 100% damage bonus.

God, this level's so annoying.

The map is huge and

the enemies are not easy.