Path Of Exile 2 Power Leveling

The ultimate build for Path of Exile 2 Patch 0.3.0 has arrived: Last Lament Crossbow Lich! This build is undoubtedly the most exhilarating build yet, and its dominance may well surpass Lightning Spear Amazon from Patch 0.2.0.

The Last Lament Crossbow Lich can handle any difficulty level in the current patch, boasting unparalleled movement speed, top-tier clearing efficiency, ridiculous single-target damage, and incredible tankiness. However, PoE 2 currency required to build such a top-tier build is staggering. Let's take a look at the details of this build.

Pros And Cons

Pros:

• Top-tier damage, speed, and survivability.
• High-speed movement, permanent fire, and instant monster kills are incredibly exhilarating.
• Efficient across all game modes.

Cons:

• The barrier to entry for casual players is quite high.
• Much unique equipment and rare equipment with specific affixes, but few replacement options.
• Multiple skill buttons require management.

Core Mechanics

Weapon

Last Lament Crossbow. Instead of reloading, it consumes health in exchange for ammunition.

Lich Ascendancy Node (Eternal Life)

 This node prevents your health from being altered while you have an energy shield. Therefore, when using Last Lament, your health cannot be consumed, achieving infinite ammunition without any side effects, allowing you to fire forever.

Low Health

Equipping Death Articulated or using Lifetap support gem actively reducing your health below 35% to enter a low health state, triggering a significant damage boost.

• Passive Node: Killer Instinct grants a 60% damage boost while at low health.
• Support Gems: Execute III (increases damage of support skills by 30% while at low health) and Direstrike II (increases attack damage by 70% while at low health).
• Soul Core: Tecrod's Gaze (+10% Movement Speed at Low Health, increased to 20% with 100% Movement Speed Boots).

Surrounded

Utilizing Constricting Command Viper Cap, this item allows you to be surrounded most of the time. This allows you to utilize the multiple powerful "When Surrounded" nodes in the passive talent effectively.

Rage

Articulated grants you Rage when losing health, while Eternal Life negates the side effects of losing health, allowing you to maintain full Rage permanently and freely use Berserk abilities for massive attack speed and damage bonuses.

Defensive

Utilizing Evasion Rating, Deflection, a high Energy Shield, and the 10% damage reduction provided by Lich Ascendancy Node Soulless Form, Lich becomes almost as difficult to kill as a tank.

The Last Lament Crossbow Lich Equipment

• 1. Main Hand: The Last Lament (3 Farrul's Rune of the Hunt)
• 2. Helmet: Constricting Command (Soul Core of Tzamoto)
• 3. Gloves: Death Articulated (Talisman of Sirrius)
• 4. Left Ring: Prismatic Ring
• 5. Right Ring: Kalandra's Touch
• 6. Amulet: Solar Amulet
• 7. Boots: Sandsworn Sandals (Farrul's Rune of the Hunt and Tecrod's Gaze)
• 8. Body: Falconer's Jacket (2 Greater Iron Runes)
• 9. Belt: Headhunter
• Charm: Nascent Hope
• Charm: The Fall of the Axe
• Charm: Rite of Passage
• Diamond: Heart of the Well
• Diamond: Megalomaniac

The Last Lament is the absolute core of this build and is naturally the first unique item you need to obtain. You currently need at least 120 PoE 2 Exalted Orbs to get it, but the bad news is that it's becoming increasingly difficult to obtain.

Other items like Constricting Command and Death Articulated grant special statuses, increasing your damage.

If you have enough PoE 2 Divine orbs, you can get a Kalandra's Touch (16 Divine Orbs) to copy the modifiers of another ring.

And Headhunter allows you to gain bonuses from rare monsters consumed in the map, increasing your damage even further. This item isn't worth pursuing unless you're a Super Whale; average Whale players can substitute it with other items.

Equipment Affix Priority:

• Weapon: High Physical DPS > Attack Speed ​​> Socket
• Helm: "Reduce Enemies Required to Be Surrounded," Affix > Spirit Corruption
• Gloves: Attack Speed ​​> Chaos Resistance > Socket
• Necklace: +3 Projectile Skill Level > Spirit Attribute > Defense > Resistance
• Ring: Lightning Damage > Item Rarity > Resistance
• Shoes: 100% Socketed Item Effect > Socket > Resistance
• Chest: High Evasion and High Energy Shield > Resistance > Deflection Rating

Jewelry Affix Priority:

• Movement Speed
• Lightning Damage
• Elemental Damage
• Damage to Unique and Rare Monsters
• Crossbow Damage
• Attack Speed
• Crossbow Attack Speed

Last Lament Crossbow Lich Skill

• Requires: Execute III, Concentrated Area, Defy I
• Galvanic Shards: Fork, Execute III, Defy I, Innervate, Rakiata's Flow
• Herald of Thunder: Elemental Focus, Lightning Attunement, Execute III, Magnified Area I, Dialla's Desire
• Convolescence: Cooldown Recovery II, Prolonged Duration II, Direstrike II
• Ghost Dance: Compressed Duration II, Uhtred's Omen
• Wind Dancer: Armor Explosion, Corrosion, Poison II, Maim, Knockback
• Berserk: Uhtred's Exodus
• Emergency Reload: Cooldown Recovery II, Prolonged Duration II, Efficiency II
• Crossbow Shot: Chain I, Deliberation

Rakiata's Flow is the gem with the biggest damage boost. Chain it to Galvanic Shards when you need to clear a map, and chain it to Recreum when fighting a single enemie or boss.

Crafting this build may require hundreds of PoE 2 Divine Orbs. If you're a whale who is looking to experience one of the best powerhouses in the meta, this build is an excellent choice. If you have limited resources, consider this as a long-term goal or look for the budget-friendly Last Lament Crossbow Lich build as an alternative.

As one of the key main classes in PoE 2, Witch is an intelligence-based class focused on summoning minions and using dark magic to kill enemies. Its reliable damage output and low difficulty of mastering make it ideal for beginners.

Of course, just because it's easy to master doesn't mean you can easily tackle more advanced Path of Exile 2 content by playing as a Witch, especially since the release of patch 0.3.0, when the game's mechanics became richer and more complex.

With this in mind, this article will introduce a Bleed Witch build crafting guide that will help you complete most of Rise of the Abyssal league content and successfully enter the endgame.

Bleed Witch Build Crafting Overview

While Lightning Spear is a skill more suited to Amazons, this build also allows you to deal bleed damage to enemies and create more explosions with Lightning Spear.

In addition, you'll want to utilize Armor Break mechanic to increase enemy damage in subsequent encounters. To achieve this, you can either use Armor Break skill directly (if you have it) or add specific support gems, such as:

• Splinter: Breaks enemy armor by linking it to an attack skill.
• Corrosion: Reduces the effectiveness of enemy armor through poison or gas effects.
• Armor Explosion: Deals damage in an area when an enemy's armor is completely destroyed.

Building on this, you can make Lightning Spear even more powerful, inflicting a more intense bleed effect. For boss encounters, you can utilize Curse and Rake debuffs and Blood Hunt skill to completely decimate the enemy.

In addition, if you plan to use this build, it's best to choose Blood Mage as Ascendancy class. This will unlock Blood Barbs skill, which deals Aggravated bleed to cursed targets and also grants bleeding magnitude with elemental damage.

Note that as you progress, this build will require you to continually acquire new gems and replace old skills with new ones. If you can't unlock new skills quickly, consuming specific PoE 2 currency to enhance gear is another option.

Step 1: Become A Witch (And Blood Mage)

As we've explained, you must first become a Witch and then select Blood Mage after unlocking Ascendancy class mechanic before you can begin crafting this build.

When you arrive in the major zone Clearfell in Act 1, find Renly and obtain a spear from him. After that, unlock Explosive Spear, Contagion, and Frost Bomb skills and equip them.

How To Utilize Related Skills?

After unlocking the necessary skills, first throw your spear forward at an enemy, then cast Contagion to cause it to explode, spreading the debuff to the remaining enemies and killing them. If you use Frost Bomb against a boss, you'll gain additional elemental exposure.

By continuously casting the skills in this order, Explosive Spear, Frost Bomb, and Contagion, you can continuously control enemies and cause them to take damage. To achieve this, you'll need to consistently cast Explosive Spear and Contagion.

After casting Explosive Spear twice, the first spear will explode with the second, and Contagion will spread again, destroying enemies until you defeat the boss, The Rust King.

This will unlock your first Tier 3 gem, allowing you to equip Lightning Spear, replacing Explosive Spear in your rotation to deal lightning and fire damage.

How To Choose The Offhand Weapon?

Until the end of Act 3, your ideal offhand gear is Rattling Scepter, which grants you bonus Spirit. However, unlocking Herald of Thunder buff will be even better.

This skill ensures that after killing a stunned enemy, your Lightning Spear will always stun them, dealing bonus damage. As you progress, don't hesitate to choose Storm Lance when you unlock your first Tier 5 gem.

Fire three Storm Lance spells at the ground followed by an Explosive Spear to create a massive explosion for massive damage. Also, don't forget to utilize Elemental Armorman and the support gem Living Lightning.

How To Choose Passives?

In early-game combat, you need to absorb all the damage from enemy attacks while also dealing extra damage to them. Adding the necessary passives for bonus attack damage is crucial.

When you use Lightning Spear to quickly pierce through a group of enemies and apply bleeds, rare monsters will accumulate some bleed. You can use Blood Hunt to blast them, managing critical and inevitable critical to allow the bleed to deal true damage.

Note that from this point on, Frost Bomb will be replaced by Elemental Weakness, which requires a strong reveal effect and a longer duration. Therefore, your passive should further increase your attack damage against full-health enemies.

To this end, it's best to give Lightning Spear a larger blade on the first attack to deal more damage against rare and unique enemies and gain a significant attack damage bonus.

To achieve this, you'll need to maximize attack damage, creating a consistent damage output, and then gradually increase the bleeding effect - since all elemental damage is a bleeding magnitude.

While this guide is designed to help you utilize this build through the early stages of Patch 0.3.0, you can still choose this build after Act 3 and even the endgame, provided you've upgraded it to further enhance it.

We hope this guide is helpful as you play Path of Exile 2. We wish you all the best during your time in Rise of the Abyssal League!