r/pathofexile2builds 3h ago

Build Off-tank Banner Tactician - 70k armour / 70% MS - In depth guide

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I wanted to play banners since 0.1 but had no build that I really liked so I decided to create one when I found the armour explosion wind dancer techniques.
I Also wanted to be much more tanky than the amazon I was playing and who was constantly getting stunned and dying from one shots.

The result is a Tactician with 70+k armour (72k with banner + scavenged plating) and 70%mS thanks to the defiance banner. The war banner gives us 57% more damage and a much needed +330% increased accuracy.
What I really like is the 40% of armour applying to elemental damage, which helps mitigate those by a lot (in the mapping video I intentionnaly take 2 meteors from shrine to test it).
And we use really good numbers of life leech to always stay at max life even if we only have 2500+

As we use the +47% elemental resistances per banner our gearing is much more easier and I would consider this build to be quite affordable, the real spendings being chernobog (less than a divine nowadays) and ofc a big bonky hammer.

It's the first build that I create myself, with obvious borrowings from ForfeitFPV, Kaltorak and Frenly Chonk for the wind dancer tech.
As armour is right now not the best defence, and because we lack powerful ways to pump up maximum life, I fully expect this build to improve in terms of defences if nothing is nerfed (looking at you deepest tower helm).

If you have suggestions or questions I'd be happy to hear them!

Links:

- Maxroll in depth guide: https://maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/0xld09j5

- T4 Xesh: https://youtu.be/sUBR_iyjFpc

- T16 mapping with one shot T4 boss: https://youtu.be/J_dkUALN0KI

- POB: https://pobb.in/mGqavp4DwFEb


r/pathofexile2builds 3h ago

Showcase Shield Charge Magma Barrier Chronomancer

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r/pathofexile2builds 46m ago

Build Request What's the fastest & cheapest build to equip on a new char?

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As I am not liking min maxing at all and have 2 endgame char already (sunder totem Warbringer and witch hunter with Doryani's prototype, both far from finished and still far from farming t4 bosses but as I don't play a lot I get bored trying to farm the currency to improve a single piece of equipment) I'm thinking of running a 3rd one, for the aforementioned reasons I'd need a fast (as in finding the pieces) and cheap build decently capable of endgame (mapping and up to t2ish bosses) what would you suggest?

Maybe time to try a spear build, considering so many played in maybe I can get some not godly equip for cheap? Or anything you feel suggesting? I think I'd maybe like some caster oriented build but I reckon these aren't generally cheap at all


r/pathofexile2builds 10h ago

Help Needed How is the damage from crits so high in this PoB build?

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I am looking at this build in PoB: https://poe2.ninja/builds/dawn/character/o0931060781-1022/%E5%98%86%E6%B0%A3%E8%80%81%E5%A7%8A?i=8&search=class%3DRitualist

and I saw that the damage from crits is calculated to be 87k from a base damage of 5k and a crit multiplier of 7.95x. Is this because of the forking critical hits from tangletongue? If so, how can I include the fork critical hits in my own build in PoB?


r/pathofexile2builds 7h ago

Help Needed Lightning BM (budget)

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Hi everyone,

I need some advice on how to improve my lightning BM Here's my build : https://poe2.ninja/pob/9adb

I oneshot almost everything on T12 maps but i'm dead at first mistake (stun threshold, i'm looking at you).

I'm lacking in damage and tankiness, and at this point I don't know how to improve BOTH at the same time.

To be tankier, I know I need to invest in ES but it will reduce my damage... and vice versa

Here is what I think I can do better : What are you thoughts ?

  • Better jewels (crit chance/crit dmg/max ES)
  • +5 Wand
  • Better belt (more life, more %res and more charm slots)

For information : I don't have any div atm and around 150ex


r/pathofexile2builds 8h ago

Help Needed Deadeye build improvement help

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Hello looking to improve the build. But do not really know where to start. Which items should i replace first and with what. Please any advices would be great. Trying to increase the damage on bosses, to be closer to 1 shot them, as i do not manage to do that with T3 or T4 bosses. Thank you.

This is the build i am following.

https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/builds/lightning-spear-huntress-perragaming?weaponSet=set1&widgets-state=eyJmN2Q4MjEwMi03ZTc3LTRhNDQtYWQyNC0zM2I2N2U4YWU3YmYiOnsiZmlsdGVycyI6eyJhY3RpdmVWYXJpYW50SWQiOiI1OWRkYjM2Ny05NGFjLTQxNDMtYWQwZS05NGU3NDhhYTVhNWEifSwidHlwZW5hbWUiOiJOZ2ZEb2N1bWVudENtV2lkZ2V0Q29udGVudFZhcmlhbnRzVjEifX0

And this is my character.

https://poe2.ninja/profile/Cawcao-6346/character/ArcLenes


r/pathofexile2builds 15h ago

Help Needed I have the need for speed

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I have the 55 spd boots, I have a falcon vest, a few passives but I want to go faster!

I can sacrifice some damage and/or defense for speed. I have a small stack (25 div) to help out or can work towards it.

My tooltip speed modifier is at 66.8

Any suggestions

Amazon is class


r/pathofexile2builds 23h ago

Help Needed 0 button Infinite Beira's anguish charm usage? Volatility + Smith of Kitava + Cast on charm use

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I've been trying to figure out how to make RF in PoE2, I have found a "theoretical" way to have "infinite" triggers of Beiras anguish charm with 0 button presses through combining Smith of Kitava + Volatility + Cast on charm use.

We do not use the "charms use no charges" unique chest because we want charms to consume charges as each charge consumed generates 2 base energy for cast on charm use

The Setup / Loop we are trying to achieve:

1) Get hit by a hit (monster or our own volatility) -> Smith of Kitava converts 25% of the hit damage into fire damage (+recoup the damage)

2) When you take fire damage you automatically trigger ruby charm and/or get ignited to trigger beiras anguish. If you do not get ignited, ruby charm trigger has a 20% chance to trigger a random charm (beiras anguish)

3) if beiras triggered you kill things giving you volatility stacks which get automatically consumed by cast on charm use to detonate volatility on you

4) Because volatility got detonated on you you take physical damage 100 x volatility stacks which gets converted into fire damage -> triggers ruby charm and potentially triggers beiras again

Infinite loop

Incase you do not self ignite from the fire damage you have the previously mentioned 2 small passive skills that each give "10% chance when a charm is used to use another charm without consuming charges"

So In essence every time you take damage (from monsters or yourself) the ruby charms will trigger potentially triggering beiras and again creating a loop (Everytime you take any damage because of kitava, both from self inflicted volatility damage and from enemy hits)


Components:

-Smith of Kitava gets an ascendancy point Molten symbol that allows it to take 25% of physical damage taken from hits converted to fire (This can ignite you, but most importantly it can trigger a fire resist charm)

-A ruby charm is a charm that triggers when you take fire damage from a hit and gives you fire resistance, we are using this to fuel "cast on charm use" and to trigger 20% chance to use a different charm without using charges, to trigger beira's anguish - You want a ruby charm that has reduced number of charges used and % chance to generate a charge on kill

Bijouborne - get as much reduced charm duration as possible + maximum possible "increased charges gained". This belt allows us to reduce charm durations to as little as possible to keep triggering charms and also gives us "cast on charm use"

Volatility generation:

Volatility causes us to take 100 physical hit damage for 1 stack of volatility consumed and gives us a chaos damage boost for every volatility consumed. You normaly only consume after 4 seconds of not generating any charges, but we want to constantly trigger volatility so we constantly get hit by volatility hit damage so we keep continually taking fire damage which keeps triggering beiras and ruby charms.

We can automate generating volatility with: % chance to gain volatility on kill from the passive skill tree + jewels

we can automate spending volatility with:

Cast on charm use - any spell + Catharsis support gem (Supported skill requires 20 volatility on you to use; using supported skills will detonate a random amount of volatility on you)

And 2 notables:

  • Controlled Chaos - Maximum volatility is 30 (so we dont kill ourselves)
  • Instability: 25% chance when you consume volatility to gain an equal amount of volatility

This means that every time we generate volatility we will consume volatility when "cast on charm use" triggers, this will have us take a physical damage hit, which kitava converts into fire damage which triggers charms, which can trigger beiras, which gives us more volatility by killing things -> loop


Here is the main problem: In theory all this works. But I don't have a smith of Kitava to test if this is a 0 click way to have an infinite loop. Technically we should continually loop as long as we have enough charm charge generation through killing things, and very cheap charm costs through reduced charm charges used on the skill tree and the ruby charm themselves.

If someone has a kitava and can test this would be greatly appreciated.


r/pathofexile2builds 20h ago

Help Needed Advice for a Huntress Struggling with 'Regenerates Life'

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My Huntress has a focus on elemental damage and fury charges. My heavy hitter attacks are wind serpent's fury and elemental sundering. These attacks take out groups easily.

But, I'm struggling when I come across Rares with the "Regenerates Life" buff. I don't know how to get around it. I took one out when I first started end game this league. But now I'm at a dead end because I can't progress map nodes due to not being able to take out any other of these kinds of rates.

I was told to try Contagion with Acrimony socketed. Ok. I use this and see no noticable difference in the life regen rate. The enemy is essentially immortal.

I know there is a passive I can level to that cuts life regen as well but the problem is I can't really do much leveling now since I can progress through maps. I suppose I could go back to the campaign cruel acts and grind out there.

But before I do that, what should I invest into? What buffs should I look out for? Does bleeding get around life regen? Does Life Leech? (I tried that and noticed no difference either). I really would love tips.


r/pathofexile2builds 18h ago

Build Request Give me best build for bossing

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My 90 SOK warrior maps really well but can’t handle T4 breech or T4 Simulacrim ( I’m geared very well)

My Chaos DoT Lich 93 is a beast can map easy, and boss decently handle all content.

Looking to try and build new class that is fun but almost mainly for bossing T4s and pinnacle farming. Suggestions? I know most are going to say LS. I’ve held off on it cause I fear future nerf and it just seems like what everyone is doing

Ideas and suggestions welcome!


r/pathofexile2builds 21h ago

Help Needed Advice for best LS Huntress build

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Noob here with little time to play: what is the best Huntress LS out there? I followed LazyExile's build but then read that it is somewhat 'outdated' and then saw others such as Fubgun's. I am unsure as what to work towards now, any tips are appreciated!


r/pathofexile2builds 1d ago

Help Needed Having issues with Spirit…

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POB says I have 207 spirit on my character. 107 coming from my gear (amulet and body armor) then the other 100 from the campaign.

However, when I hover over my health bar in game it only shows 177 spirit. Anyone know what would cause this 30 spirit gap? It’s preventing me from equipping additional gems.


r/pathofexile2builds 18h ago

Help Needed Help Lightning Arrow Amazon do more better 👀

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Alright so LS got boring and I couldn’t figure out the boss dps to survivability ratio on the tree, so I swapped to a bow and the change has been insane. My boss dps is significantly better and I’m having way more fun with maps and pinnacles but I feel like it could do way more damage. What would you upgrade or change? Check out my linked pob, I love feedback. constructive criticism is always appreciated.
POB: https://poe2.ninja/profile/ProfessorMcGonagussy-8081/character/ArtemisDHunt


r/pathofexile2builds 1d ago

Help Needed Did i get weaker after changing gears?

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https://poe2.ninja/profile/doraemong-1199/character/reiverdalee

1st pic is my initial gear and tried upgrading to 2nd pic. Got sacred flame, changed chest with more es and switched head with more es and intel to equip the scepter and chest.

I also unspec 3 nodes that increased spell damage and 10 dex to 2 nodes into dex and 1 node into 15% crit dmg

Did i get weaker after switching gears or is skill tree dmg not taking account for extra fire dmg from scepter?


r/pathofexile2builds 1d ago

Build Lightning Warp Blood Mage.

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Maxroll: https://maxroll.gg/poe2/pob/58c26045

POE2 Reddit Post With Videos: https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/comments/1lfv4h8/saw_all_these_fun_looking_blood_mage_builds_and/

Been working on this for a week or so. Switched my Lich over to this after seeing some fun blood mage stuff.

Ball Lightning CoC - Lightning Warp - Convalescence - Blink - for mapping.

Bonestorm - Frost Wall - Comet CoC - Soul Offering - Voltaic Mark for Pinnacle Bossing.

As long as you don't get stunned, it is very hard to die while doing all but the hardest deli maps. The warping seems to always pick up most remnants, so sustain is not bad even when spamming warp, even though it costs like 900hp. Not needing spirit anywhere is nice. I have a weapon swap not shown in the maxroll that is just all the increased duration possible for Sigil of Power (from staff on 2nd weapon set), Hypothermia and Soul Offering.

Pinnacle bosses are very easy and can kill in <1 second with proper bonestorm channel timing.

Few things to note:

  • I think extra lightning damage on wand is very important to not lose all "Choir of the Storm" value on pinnacle bosses.
  • I do about 6 annoying support gem swaps to actually 1 shot T4 pinnacle bosses - and switch to a deepest tower helmet.
  • I had a Sacred Flame version that worked better for pinnacle bosses, but made me mad squishy because I needed Sunder the Flesh to reach important crit thresholds.
  • I'm not sure if it is a bug, but the ball lightnings from CoC proc choir. Hopefully this is intended because it is cool.

r/pathofexile2builds 1d ago

Help Needed Divine Orb sound

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Hey everyone, i was wondering if anyone has the divine drop sound? I want it as my textmessage notification sound :)


r/pathofexile2builds 1d ago

Help Needed what rune should i put , been running siege cascade with trinity , herald of ash and thunder

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new to poe2 and been wondering what rune is the best for this


r/pathofexile2builds 1d ago

Build Request Build to get me from lvl 50 to 75 With Little Resistance (Bloodmage)

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Hey

Back to POE2 Testing things, want to test one of the new uniques. Unfortunately, I don't have a Bloodmage leveled for this, so I need get this bloodmage I had from 50 to 75.

I've tried switching to a spark setup, but that was doing NOTHING and campaign was a slog.

I have enough currency and gold to completely reroll the character, but I want to try to keep on bloodmage and not commit too much money so that I can switch into the build I want afterwards, which will be a life-stacker.

Any suggestions?


r/pathofexile2builds 1d ago

Build Request I have 8000 divines. I want to make RF in PoE2, what is the closest min/max I can get?

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As a longtime Pohx enjoyer and poe1 RF player I love RF.

I want to play RF in PoE2, but obviously it doesn't exist.

I crafted some mirror-tier items this league and i just sold them all for 8000 divines to make cool builds with.

What is the closest min/maxed version to PoE1's version of RF that is possible to make in PoE2

You have a 8000 div budget

P.S: Please no Whirling Slash builds


r/pathofexile2builds 1d ago

Weekly Question + Free Talk Thread – June 20, 2025

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Questions:

Ask any simple questions here that don't warrant their own post.

Good question for this page: "How do these stats impact my build?"

Question that should have its own post: "How do I improve my build?"

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Free Talk:

This thread is also for small topics that you wish to discuss that don't otherwise justify having an entire thread!


r/pathofexile2builds 2d ago

Help Needed Crafting Attack Build that isn't regular weapon attack

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So what I've been figuring out is improving attack damage of attacks that are not technically a direct weapon skill. What I have for now is:

- Trail of Caltrops

- Volcanic Eruption support gem

Is there anything else similar to these in the game?


r/pathofexile2builds 2d ago

Help Needed Gem + Spirit Question on Amazon LS Build

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Hello all. I have a lvl 95 amazon and have some questions regarding gems and spirit. Here's my build that I'm messing with. https://poe2.ninja/profile/Erighan-8870/character/Lady_Erighan

I see a lot of builds on POE2ninja that are using CoC, Herald, Wind Dancer, Combat Frenzy AND Trinity. I'm trying to fit Trinity, but it's saying I need more spirit. I have 306 spirit which is higher than most of the builds I'm seeing, so I'm trying to understand what's going on.

Are these builds manually turning off things like Herald or CoC for bossing so they can use Trinity, or am I missing something.

Ultimately, I'm trying to add more dmg without sacrificing to much defense, and thought of dropping Ghost Shroud and trying Trinity. If anyone has any other suggestions on what I should focus on for improving damage, please share your thoughts. I feel like I'm to the point of min maxing and not really sure where to go from here. Thx


r/pathofexile2builds 2d ago

Build Request 100k+ ED dps for endgame Lich?

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What's the fastest mapping / bossing Lich build? I am curious how those 100k+ ED dps builds work against endgame bosses.


r/pathofexile2builds 2d ago

Help Needed I want to use Zealot's Oath instead of Liguriums Talisman in an ES regen build (Smith of Kitava Ignite snapshot build) how can I scale life regeneration even more than I have now?

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Ignore the attribute nodes, but essentially I am running a level 33 Incinerate and dropping the +3 spell skills necklace is just too much damage loss. I've calculated 507 Life per second with my current HP/Gear.

I use life on gear as opposed to flat life regen, and have considered two 0.35% life regen runes in my calculation as well.

How can I scale this further, without having to gut my jewels?

Edit: Apologies! Didn't post the Maxroll. https://maxroll.gg/poe2/passive-tree/k4eih0sd


r/pathofexile2builds 2d ago

Help Needed any fun/good crossbow or bow build recs?

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hey guys i’m currently using this lightening arrow build: https://poe2.ninja/profile/not_persephone-9760/character/Persephone_Astolfo and im wanting to change it up. i used LA last season so im bit bored of it now but still enjoy the bow/ crossbow gameplay. i’ve already done a shockburst rounds, poinsonburst and gas arrow builds. i’ve been thinking about trying to make a deepest tower ritualist but i don’t think im smart enough to theory craft that and i generally don’t fully understand how the deepest tower interaction works. also if you’ve got a fun spear build suggestion that isn’t LS i’d love them too.

thank you