INSANE MERCENARY LIGHTNING DPS Build ｜ Path of Exile 2 FASTEST MERCENARY LVLING Build (Lvl 20+)

Hello, welcome back to a new Path of Exile

2 video.

Today I'll show you my electric AoE guide

for Mercenary, best for leveling up and

clearing large groups of enemies.

Basically, we're going to be using

Galvanic Shards with the support gems Ammo

Conservation and Double Barrel.

So Ammo Conservation basically gives you

25% chance to not consume a bolt, and you

get 5 bolts by default, so you've got 25%

chance of not using one of the bolts.

And Double Barrel gives you one additional

bolt and also reduces reload speed by 30%.

You might be wondering why don't I put any

damage buffs, because I've got some gems

that actually increase damage.

And the reason why I don't do that is

because it already does enough damage, to

be honest, and I think just having extra

bolts is better.

So for these big tough guys, the

electricity doesn't really— I mean, it's

still pretty effective, but sometimes you

get big guys that need more single target

damage, and for those cases we have Load

High Velocity Rounds, and we've put an

Hourglass which does 40% more damage but

increases the cooldown by 10 seconds.

So that's just for single target enemies,

and we've also got Fragmentation Rounds

for tougher enemies.

But for mostly swarms, we're just going to

be spraying them— gonna be spraying them

with the lightning attacks like this.

So I'm going to show you how good it is

once we get more enemies all grouped up.

Okay, so we've got some enemies here.

Just look at the electricity, it just arcs

all over the place, zaps them all.

Oh yeah, I want to show you the skill

tree.

So for the skill tree, basically just go

down this route of projectile damage, and

then you want to get down to here where

you've got a massive 40% increased

projectile, projectile damage buff here.

Also 15% and 10%.

And then go down here and you've got

lightning buffs, so you've got 10% 10%,

10%, 10%, 15%, and then you got 50% chance

to also shock enemies in 1.5-meter radius

and 15% increased electrocute.

And I'm gonna get this one when I get my

next level.

So basically shocking means that, uh, they

take 20% increased damage for about 4

seconds, and Galvanic Shot

has a chance of shocking them, I think.

Where is it?

Beam.

Physical damage to lightning damage chains

to one enemy.

It says somewhere here— oh wait,

I don't think it actually does shock

enemies.

I thought it did shock enemies.

What?

Hmm.

Oh yeah, it does shock enemies.

Look, you go to lightning, it says

lightning damage is one of 5 damage types.

Lightning hits have chance to shock based

on how much lightning damage is dealt.

I thought for a second it didn't actually

shock.

Obviously lightning shocks, what was I

thinking?

So yeah, anyway, you want to max out the

lightning passive skills obviously because

it's a lightning build.

So yeah, we got this Spreading Shocks,

Thunderstruck.

What else can we get?

For lightning.

Increased attack damage?

No.

Projectile speed, attack area.

I just noticed this whole massive skill

tree is the same skill tree for every

class in the game because I play a warrior

as my main, and I realized this, this is

the warrior part.

Look, you got the totems down here and you

got 2-handed weapons.

I thought the whole tree was just for one

class, but no, it's like each of these

nodes around the circle represents a

different class.

So that was Warrior, this is Mercenary,

this must be Ranger because it's got like

bow and arrow stuff and poisons.

This must be

Mage or something like that, and I don't

know what this is.

Mage.

So this also buffs lightning damage up

here, Path of Storms.

So I don't know if you can get enough

points to go sneak around here and get the

Elemental Mage talents for your mercenary.

That'd be funny.

So anyway, because we don't have that many

points, we've got to stick to our own

tree.

And if you go straight down this path,

you've got elemental damage increases.

Um, what else?

Yeah, reload, projectile increase, that

kind of stuff.

So yeah, it's a pretty good build and just

shocks everything like that.

Problem is it does take quite a long time

to reload.

I don't know why.

What's making my reload speed so slow?

I don't really feel like you need to put

more damage onto this because it already

does quite a lot of damage.

See, look,

and you got 6 shots, but usually you get

more than 6 because you got a 25% chance

of not using a bolt.

Look, they all get shocked.

It is quite cool, I like the effect.

So I think it's a great way for grinding

mobs.

The annoying thing is this game just

throws loads of mobs at you when you don't

want it, and then when you want to make a

video or you want to grind levels and

gold, it's like the map's empty and you

can't find anything to kill.

You run around this empty map.

And you're like, where all the mobs at?

And then when you try and get somewhere,

they'll get in your way.

Typical, isn't it?

So yeah, you have fun just zapping stuff.

It'd be nice if you get more shots.

You keep having to reload this stupid

thing.

Also, you can't reload whilst you dodge.

Dodging will make it take longer to

reload, which is kind of annoying.

Gonna do a high velocity shot.

Oh, it went through them!

And then finish them off with a few zaps

like that.

Oh, he's still alive.

These guys don't go down very quickly with

the electricity because they've got a lot

of health, I guess.

For that, I would use Fragmentation Shot,

but then for little bugs like this,

electricity works great.

Look at these guys, they just get fried.

Oh, this is like a boss, isn't it?

I need higher damage for this.

Oh, look at that, Fragmentation Shot

really rips through them.

Oh, that was nice.

Yeah, always just keep switching rounds.

You don't need to stick to one type of

round.

So then for Fragmentation, I've got 100%

chance to ignite, which doesn't actually

do anything, so I'm going to switch this

to— I've also got 35% of damage as

lightning.

I don't even, even know what that does, to

be honest.

And I might put this there.

Oh, you can't.

Maybe I'll put 35% increased physical

damage on Frag Shot, see if that makes any

good.

Watch this.

Eh, it's okay.

So this is definitely the best AoE bolt, I

think.

Okay, finished.