Mobalytics written guide here! Check it out guys! mobalytics.gg/poe-2/profile/e9dd5679-c1ba-4252-bc00-cce31336b937/builds/2dfc34a8-f93b-47c6-8959-ac8aab4853a6
i like how dedicated you are to your channel since poe1 days and putting out concise guides on different mechanics and seeing your channel grow, are you gonna do the same for poe2 endgame? also will you make a short overall guide for this build or no? like which supports are most important in campaign etc. either way good build im only on act2 but its fun
*🔧 Key Build Changes & Improvements:* 1. *Cast on Freeze Returns:* - Improved AOE and smoother gameplay after fixes to mana issues. - Works better with contagion poison setups, scaling massive poison damage as it spreads. 2. *Bug Fix Update:* - Fixed contagion’s interaction with poison scaling. - This creates higher damage multipliers (up to 300% damage increase). 3. *Gem Setup Update:* - *Core Gems:* Swift Affliction, Contagion, Cast on Freeze, and Fragmentation. - *Withering Presence:* Optional for higher chaos damage multiplier. - *Blink Setup*: Weapon-swapping trick allows mobility skills for escaping sticky situations. --- *🛡️ Gear Tips:* 1. *Weapons:* Focus on high physical damage and crit chance. 2. *Jewels:* Prioritize ailment/poison magnitudes and crit hit chance. --- *💡 Pro Tips:* - Ensure the build balances offense and defense for late-game survival. - Start with Tier 6-7 maps and aim to optimize further for Tier 10+ maps. --- *📢 Final Note:* The build is still in progress but shows promise for late-game viability. Keep following updates for the best results.
hey thanks! I wouldn't say this is dominate but it's fun! Grenade is just too clunky for me to like xD I just like playing my kind of thing and figure stuff out. It's fun!
One man's nerf is another man's buff haha. I appreciate your ability to adapt and the rate at which you are putting out these follow-up videos. Sometimes I check socials and community says the world is ending, then I see Lazy video and you are just BLASTING. Keep em coming! 😊
one thing to keep in mind is, 99% of ANY games player base population cant do basic math. For some ungodly reason if you take a number, any number, like 5 and you put a % behind it peoples brains begin to go blue screen of death.
Your build looks great! I’ve been experimenting with corrosion and scattershot on my gas grenade to shred armor. I noticed that the armor break occurs nearly instantly with multiple has grenade shots. After using high velocity rounds to consume the armor break the gas cloud will rebreak armor right away looping me in an armor break cloud and high velocity break loop. I’m new to poe and having a blast testing things out
Been following your guide and are entering act 3 now, absolutely love it so far. Have you tried adding a curse aswell? Since you can support it with decaying hex to give it a chaos damage over time effect, causing it to prolifirate with contagion, and if the mana from the curse is to taxing it might be possible to alleviate the cost a bit from the curse. That is of course if the build has any open slots left Since the main damage of the build is poison, despair could be a good option to reduce the chaos resistance, or enfeeble for more damage reduction.
Thanks for the suggestion. I don't have much AOE problem, but for single target, I definitely think we'll do some sort of curse setup soon. Maybe hand of chayula with freezing mark and despair would be cool. Mainly looking for a way to solved single target damage.
ty again for the detailed update! any advice what to pick in the atlas tree? have gathered a few points but I've been waiting to spend em and I dont wanna find out how much it costs to refund those.
Hey saw that you dropped the stars aligned notable is there any reason not to drop it asap to build into other more impactful notable like fast acting toxin or something else. Im getting close to end of Cruel about halfway through act 3/6. Love the build btw it is exactly what I was envisioning for merc!
I kinda mentioned in one of the video that it helps during bossing in the campaign if you need help. Later on it is less impactful so if you struggle with boss, take it. If you dont have issue with any boss, then you can just go spec into the main tree.
I’m only lvl 30. Almost finishing act 2. I’m liking grenades but always preferred this kind of style. I invested in grenade nodes, is it too late to spec into this you think?
I picked mana regen! My reason was: - Stun immunity from strength stack - Ailment immunties can be solved with charm - Mana regen is an issue for us late game
Should I have this much life??? I'm level 72 with 1400 life, I die a lot and can barely pass t2 maps with res and armor. Do you see this pushing the highest tier of maps? I'm looking for a new gemling build
1400 life is too little, you probably want to fix your resistance, and get some life on gears first. I can see this pushing the highest tier map yes, or at least I'll try to
Idk man I'm like 1200 life 4k energy shield 81% evasion 75% all res except chaos that is 0 atm almost to Chaos inoculation i think im lvl 75-76... so like are your res atleast positive? What's your armor chance? All that kind of stuff
@LazyExile Thanks for the reply that's really helpful. I'm just trying to work out where to go regarding max res Vs strength stack it's a difficult one
@@mickmassacre7055 probably meaning that when you Load the bullets (bolts) in, the support gem doesnt trigger, but it does trigger when actually shooting those bolts
yea the mechanic is you have different ammunition type socketed in the skill gems slots. Each time you choose a type, you loaded it up to shoot it with right click.
If you're doing witchhunter, you can look for a less tanky evasion playstyle, so pathing into the pathfinder area would be okay. However, I'm not sure if it would be strong because evasion archetype is kinda bad without frontloaded damage (poison is DoT)
you can start with my starter guide, and transition into this after getting the unique ring, or if you have the currency, buy the ring and a bow then you can do this one too!
@@LazyExile I mean if dealing lightning damage and shocking the enemy, would cast on shock work the same way like cast on freeze does when freezing them?
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Mobalytics written guide here! Check it out guys!
mobalytics.gg/poe-2/profile/e9dd5679-c1ba-4252-bc00-cce31336b937/builds/2dfc34a8-f93b-47c6-8959-ac8aab4853a6
i like how dedicated you are to your channel since poe1 days and putting out concise guides on different mechanics and seeing your channel grow, are you gonna do the same for poe2 endgame? also will you make a short overall guide for this build or no? like which supports are most important in campaign etc. either way good build im only on act2 but its fun
*🔧 Key Build Changes & Improvements:*
1. *Cast on Freeze Returns:*
- Improved AOE and smoother gameplay after fixes to mana issues.
- Works better with contagion poison setups, scaling massive poison damage as it spreads.
2. *Bug Fix Update:*
- Fixed contagion’s interaction with poison scaling.
- This creates higher damage multipliers (up to 300% damage increase).
3. *Gem Setup Update:*
- *Core Gems:* Swift Affliction, Contagion, Cast on Freeze, and Fragmentation.
- *Withering Presence:* Optional for higher chaos damage multiplier.
- *Blink Setup*: Weapon-swapping trick allows mobility skills for escaping sticky situations.
---
*🛡️ Gear Tips:*
1. *Weapons:* Focus on high physical damage and crit chance.
2. *Jewels:* Prioritize ailment/poison magnitudes and crit hit chance.
---
*💡 Pro Tips:*
- Ensure the build balances offense and defense for late-game survival.
- Start with Tier 6-7 maps and aim to optimize further for Tier 10+ maps.
---
*📢 Final Note:*
The build is still in progress but shows promise for late-game viability. Keep following updates for the best results.
this build is awesome! been following . Love seeing a non-nade build dominate!
hey thanks! I wouldn't say this is dominate but it's fun! Grenade is just too clunky for me to like xD I just like playing my kind of thing and figure stuff out. It's fun!
Loving these guides and updates, thanks so much!
thanks for watching!
One man's nerf is another man's buff haha. I appreciate your ability to adapt and the rate at which you are putting out these follow-up videos. Sometimes I check socials and community says the world is ending, then I see Lazy video and you are just BLASTING. Keep em coming! 😊
one thing to keep in mind is, 99% of ANY games player base population cant do basic math. For some ungodly reason if you take a number, any number, like 5 and you put a % behind it peoples brains begin to go blue screen of death.
I appreciate that! Really enjoying the game and it's only the first week xD
Just switched to this build from a grenade spammer and this is way more fun! Take my sub!
You are the reason why I'm still playing after the nerfs
I'm glad I'm the reason xD
Your build looks great! I’ve been experimenting with corrosion and scattershot on my gas grenade to shred armor. I noticed that the armor break occurs nearly instantly with multiple has grenade shots. After using high velocity rounds to consume the armor break the gas cloud will rebreak armor right away looping me in an armor break cloud and high velocity break loop. I’m new to poe and having a blast testing things out
Thank you for the update!
Any time!
this build is cool as hell
haha thanks!
The trigger effect you talked about to scale damage, was the cast on freeze with contagion? Great vid by the way
yes thats right!
Been following your guide and are entering act 3 now, absolutely love it so far.
Have you tried adding a curse aswell? Since you can support it with decaying hex to give it a chaos damage over time effect, causing it to prolifirate with contagion, and if the mana from the curse is to taxing it might be possible to alleviate the cost a bit from the curse. That is of course if the build has any open slots left
Since the main damage of the build is poison, despair could be a good option to reduce the chaos resistance, or enfeeble for more damage reduction.
Thanks for the suggestion. I don't have much AOE problem, but for single target, I definitely think we'll do some sort of curse setup soon. Maybe hand of chayula with freezing mark and despair would be cool. Mainly looking for a way to solved single target damage.
ty again for the detailed update! any advice what to pick in the atlas tree? have gathered a few points but I've been waiting to spend em and I dont wanna find out how much it costs to refund those.
I'll cover them in a separate video until I get to test them out fully. For now, I'm picking waystone drop with higher tier for pushing the atlas
Hey saw that you dropped the stars aligned notable is there any reason not to drop it asap to build into other more impactful notable like fast acting toxin or something else. Im getting close to end of Cruel about halfway through act 3/6. Love the build btw it is exactly what I was envisioning for merc!
I kinda mentioned in one of the video that it helps during bossing in the campaign if you need help. Later on it is less impactful so if you struggle with boss, take it. If you dont have issue with any boss, then you can just go spec into the main tree.
This is pretty cool do you think it is doable as a deadeye? Farming through campaign sounds unbearable
campaign is actually much better now after the adjustment.. If you're playing this, pathfinder might be better
Nice vid! do you play on WASD on click to move?
Yes I do! I play on WASD
Hello lazy, can you please share your Str and Dex stats pls? Thanks alot for this build, Im enjoying it a lot!
thanks, I'm glad you're having fun! My stats are: Str - 255, Dex - 90
At what point do you recommend respecing to this tree from your starter tree?
around level 70 at tier 1 or 2 map
@LazyExile thank you! Your guides have been awesome
you're welcome!
Hi, im playing your build - what do you do if the Boss is Cold immune? Feels like single target is very bad then
just spam fragmentation and HVR, damage from ailment will ramp up... it's not that bad
I’m only lvl 30. Almost finishing act 2. I’m liking grenades but always preferred this kind of style. I invested in grenade nodes, is it too late to spec into this you think?
Do you have some ideas for the ice or fire build for the Legion?
technically, incendiary shot with frostfire could work but I'm not sure if it's better
Question which venom (Permanent buff) did you choose ? From servi
I picked mana regen! My reason was:
- Stun immunity from strength stack
- Ailment immunties can be solved with charm
- Mana regen is an issue for us late game
@ awesome ! I also picked mana regen by mistake and I was about to restart the game for that 😭 if it was a bad choice
mana regen is hard to get on the tree, so as a matter of fact, it's a pretty good choice
Should I have this much life??? I'm level 72 with 1400 life, I die a lot and can barely pass t2 maps with res and armor. Do you see this pushing the highest tier of maps? I'm looking for a new gemling build
1400 life is too little, you probably want to fix your resistance, and get some life on gears first. I can see this pushing the highest tier map yes, or at least I'll try to
Idk man I'm like 1200 life 4k energy shield 81% evasion 75% all res except chaos that is 0 atm almost to Chaos inoculation i think im lvl 75-76... so like are your res atleast positive? What's your armor chance? All that kind of stuff
@@bamfme res are 50% chaos 30%, armor is 60%, evasion was converted to armor. DO you have a piece of gear you prioritize life on or something?
Maybe one day I will understand the whole chain ahah
someone will probably figured it out as more people know about this
How much strength and accuracy rating are you on at the moment?
I only have 255 strength and about 2000 accuracy. I'll be upgrading my gear later. Not sure if I'll fully commit to strength stack yet.
@LazyExile Thanks for the reply that's really helpful. I'm just trying to work out where to go regarding max res Vs strength stack it's a difficult one
max res is really good, at least max the elemental res
What’s the difference between “load armor piercing rounds” and just “armor piercing rounds”?
not sure what you means, but the mechanics of crossbow is you have ammunition, which when using the skill will load that into your crossbow to shoot
If u scroll over a support gem it displays both , some even give a red cross on the load one
@@mickmassacre7055 probably meaning that when you Load the bullets (bolts) in, the support gem doesnt trigger, but it does trigger when actually shooting those bolts
yea the mechanic is you have different ammunition type socketed in the skill gems slots. Each time you choose a type, you loaded it up to shoot it with right click.
very nice, so you get the extra 95 spirit from chest and amulet probably?
chest 44 and amulet is 50, so yes around that number
Your videos are very informative, subbed.
Awesome, thank you!
What can a man do to get you to switch to maxroll instead of mobalytics?
Maxroll is 100x better, especially their talent thing.
mobalytics seems to be the popular choice...
Can you still cause shock when using the unique ring?
what loot filter you uusing?
my own loot filter with custom sounds xD you can find it in my discord
Can you still do this build with witch hunter?
stacking strength will be less effective so you'll have to think about an alternative way
Is stacking strength needed? Or is it only for the extra health?
I saw your other comment about what strength stacking does. I think I’ll try to experiment with witch hunter! Any recommendations?
If you're doing witchhunter, you can look for a less tanky evasion playstyle, so pathing into the pathfinder area would be okay. However, I'm not sure if it would be strong because evasion archetype is kinda bad without frontloaded damage (poison is DoT)
Im level 50, can i use this build?
you can start with my starter guide, and transition into this after getting the unique ring, or if you have the currency, buy the ring and a bow then you can do this one too!
Would this also work with cast on shock for lightning damage galvanic shards?
not really because you are not freezing the enemy..
@@LazyExile I mean if dealing lightning damage and shocking the enemy, would cast on shock work the same way like cast on freeze does when freezing them?
yes it should works the same
Also should I not bother with the build if I don’t have that special ring? Can it still work ?
You talk about “the build” and your updates to it… but what build? I don’t see any links to a build in the description or anything
mobalytics.gg/poe-2/profile/e9dd5679-c1ba-4252-bc00-cce31336b937/builds/2dfc34a8-f93b-47c6-8959-ac8aab4853a6
this is the mobalytics link to the build
Lmao
@@LazyExile Thank you :D!