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In today's video, I'll show you my

lightning AoE build that's perfect for

grinding and leveling up and great for

clearing large swarms of enemies in Path

of Exile 2.

Okay, so first of all, we have Galvanic

Shards, which is basically this lightning

attack, and we're gonna put the Lightning

Infusion, which gives you 25% of damage as

extra

damage.

And also Primal Armament is going to give

you 25% more elemental damage.

And also Voltaic Grenade, which does this—

it's basically a grenade that explodes

with lightning.

And we're going to put on 25% more attack

speed because that's really useful for

grenades to have higher attack speed.

And also builds 50% more stun buildup

because we obviously want to stun enemies

with our lightning grenade.

So basically the playstyle works like

this: Go and find a group of enemies

somewhere like this, and then you just

spam them with, uh, Galvanic Shards.

And as you can see, it just zaps them all

pretty effectively.

And then you can chuck a grenade, and

that'll do extra lightning damage.

So yeah, it's pretty good for leveling up

if you want to clear large swarms of

enemies like this.

Very useful.

So for the skill tree, we've got—

obviously we need to go into the lightning

category.

So we're going to get Lightning Rod,

Lightning Damage.

It's going to give you 12, 10% lightning

damage increase.

And then we're also going to get Lightning

Penetration, Flash Storm.

And then also go into the elemental damage

section.

So I need more points to get these, but

this will basically give you just 12%,

12%, 12% elemental damage.

And also get these 12% increased elemental

damage.

So there's quite a lot of increased

elemental damage you can get from this

cluster of skills.

And then you also want to go for the

2-handed weapon damage multipliers.

So you got this overwhelm 2-handed damage

because crossbows actually do count as a

2-handed weapon.

And I also got this increased crit chance,

and I've got these projectile damage

increase, projectile damage.

So yeah, it's basically a damage-focused

build

with lightning and elemental elements to

give you more damage from the lightning.

One bad thing about this build is for

single target damage, it's not very good.

So when I go up against bosses, I don't

use this.

This is just for clearing swarms of mobs.

I don't know what just one-shot me, but

the fragmentation rounds are much better.

So for example, there's a boss here.

You're just gonna do way more damage if

you use fragmentation rounds like that.

I mean, look how much damage I've done

already.

Look how much damage I've done.

Jesus, that was like 5 shots.

I think I got a crit,

but with Galvanic Shards you just won't do

that kind of damage.

So yeah, for bosses and single target, I

always go for the Fragmentation Rounds.

Oh my God, nearly one-shot me.

And also, yeah, I got cluster grenades.

I don't know why it's not— oh, I've got it

unequipped for some reason.

Oh look, I'm gonna kill her so easily if I

can just do some crits here.

Oh no, she does this thing where she

melees you and blows up.

Now if she connects that hit, it actually

one-shots you.

Which is really annoying.

And then this flamethrower,

I don't know if I can— damage is kind of

slowing down here.

Oh, I knew that was— I just knew that was

gonna happen.

Ah, these bosses in this game, so annoying

because it can be going really well and

then you just accidentally fail to dodge

one of their attacks and it one-shots you.

So if I try again, this time with Galvanic

Shards, it's just not as good.

Look, look at the damage.

It's just not very great.

The damage is terrible.

Oh my god, it's Fucking flamethrower

thing, so stupid.

I'll go back to frag rounds.

I've got 25% chance not to consume bolt,

35% more physical damage.

I don't know if that's good because then

my elemental damage perks aren't gonna

work.

So you could put elemental damage on your

frag shot.

I don't know if that actually works

though.

And then get rid of that,

and then 25% of damage as extra fire

damage.

Wait, really want lightning damage.

Can I put lightning damage on the

fragmentation shot?

See if that makes me do more damage.

I hate it when the bosses start off with

this little dialogue or animation.

Just get on with it.

I don't know if I'm doing more or less

damage.

Oh, I am doing lightning damage.

Whoa, look at this damage.

Yeah, you can do lightning damage with

frag rounds.

Oh my god, that thing nearly got me.

Oh, that thing, every time it gets me.

Try again.

I'm stunning them so quickly.

Oh my God.

Oh,

I did the dodge 1 second too early.

I feel like my previous build was doing

more damage.

Hold on, maybe I'll put this one back on.

No, not that one.

Scorpion stinger.

Oh no,

now you pay with your life.

I go for that, maybe.

Iron, iron, flesh and bone.

Insane?

I'll show you insane.

I'm doing 5K damage per shot.

Pretty good.

I hate this one.

Oppressors!

Need more time.

Die, die, die!

I don't know why I rolled into it.

What?

I couldn't even dodge that stupid fucking

game.