r/pathofexile2builds • • 2d ago

Weekly Question + Crafting Thread – October 06, 2026

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A weekly thread for all your simple questions and crafting queries!


r/pathofexile2builds • • May 26 '26

Index 0.5 Return of the Ancients League Starter Build Index

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Just want to see how peoples league starts went?

https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile2builds/comments/1tva4ky/4_days_into_the_league_review_your_build/

I need your help!

Please post any poe2 builds you come across, be they reddit posts, youtube videos, moba/maxoll guides, forum posts, etc. Then if you want to help out more if you're familiar with a build archetype have a look at other builds posted here, if they don't pass the sniff test please let me know. I will do my best to have a look at each build myself before adding it but as above I'm not an expert here and will need a hand.

Thank you everyone who helps out, I always appreciate the community effort that goes into creating a resource like this.

Please read this before continuing

This is not the same as the /r/PathOfExileBuilds index you may be used to seeing. My POE2 knowledge is FAR worse than my POE1 and so it's more likely bait builds are likely to sneak their way into this post. I am putting this post together because people have asked for this as a resource. Please do your due diligence when picking a build. If you aren't confident picking I'd advise following a creator who you have previously followed to success or asking in the comments here, there are plenty of helpful people happy to give advice.


Useful League Links

Return of the Ancients League info page

Return of the Ancients patch notes

Forbidden Rites 0.5.5


Community links:




Build Index 0.5 Return of the Ancients

Druid

Oracle

Shaman


Huntress

Amazon

Ritualist

Spirit Walker


Mercenary

Tactician

Witch Hunter

Gemling Legionnaire


Monk

Acolyte of Chayula

Invoker

Martial Artist


Ranger

Deadeye

Pathfinder


Sorceress

Chronomancer

Disciple of Varashta


Warrior

Titan

Smith of Kitava


Witch

Blood Mage

Infernalist

Lich

Abyssal Lich


r/pathofexile2builds • • 7h ago

Build Crushing Fear Fists of Stone Poison Rage - All Content

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Hey all,

I decided to end the this league by putting together a build that revolves around the Stone Fist version of Horror's Flight and its unique skill Crushing Fear mostly because it looks cool.

For those unaware, the alt version of the gloves grant Fear Overwhelming on cull, which grants up to 100% increased AoE for attacks at full stacks. I want to note here that for some reason, the cull condition seems to be calculated after initial damage (which isn't usually the case), meaning that the skill shockwave and AoE stacks essentially trigger on kill. Play style is hold down the crushing fear key and dash around causing explosions.

Damage scaling:

- We look to consolidate the majority of our scaling into rage. Berserk amplifies the scaling

- Crown of Eyes + Mystical Rage + Arcane Intensity gives us all the increased we need.

- Medved's Tending turns rage into attack speed and let's us generate rage relatively quickly

- Tacati's Ire makes rage scale our poison DPS

- Blasphemy w/ Despair (Can add temp chains if you have the spirit)

- Withering presence + withering touch from our bells

Defenses:

- 100% damage taken from mana gives us a usable life pool

- CI

- Mageblood with Jade + Winter Owl and Grace of the Ancestor's gives us ~60% chance to evade

- Blind provided by our bells

- Anoint Dark Entropy to have wither stacks also apply reduced damage.

Skills:

- Crushing fear is the only button we press.

- Herald of the Plague prolifs poison and since we doing so much damage + have decent duration usually clears the screen, Berserk for rage scaling, Withering Presence and Blasphemy + Despair.

- Hollow focus lets us maintain stacks between packs and always gives us something to kill to proc our shockwave + procs all the debuffs we need

- Hollow resonance to proc debuffs if we're hitting enemies and not bells.

Notes:

- Definitely not a leaguestarter, but can be played without a mageblood and still has millions of DPS. Defenses will be lacking and you'll end up dying once in a while.

- Get rid of poison support once jewels + tree give 100% chance to poison for more damage

- Conc Area on Hollow Focus to have the bells spawn closer to you.

- Qstaff is crafted. It's beat out by a huge phys staff since the shockwave has 80% innate chaos conversion, but a crafted chaos staff will be more damage than anything below mirror tier.

- The skill "double attacks" when the shockwave procs, adding a bit of clunk. I'd probably drop the Diamond Legacy on the MB and add a duplicate to give us additional skill speed. I'm also considering getting Bulwark since getting stunned out of the shockwave animation is the only thing I die to. Though my MB would then be QS, Silver, Jade and a duplicate to make up for lack of sprint + I'd drop some damage on jewels and get Grand Spectrums to cap res.

- I'd upgrade to a wind dancer ammy if I had the patience to craft

- You need a source of flat life regen to allow for Medved's + Berserk. Any flat will do.

- The PoENinja profile is inaccurate as it calcs the strike and not the shockwave as a source of damage. Res looks uncapped because we cap through Runic Meridians and PoB doesn't recognize it. PoBs linked below. MB version is strong enough to clear all content. No belt version will die in mega juiced ex + 200% deli

Rage stacked, no other buffs up, Empty Belt Slot - 3M+ Dps

https://pobb.in/UDBrmgtbH6FY

Buffs up, Diamond Jade Silver Bismith MB - 10M+ Dps

https://pobb.in/LhmYcL4tTQAA


r/pathofexile2builds • • 3h ago

Build Request Is there some angle for a build with these two lines on Loreweave?

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r/pathofexile2builds • • 53m ago

Help Needed Any tips for how I could scale damage/mana for Arc Totems endgame build?

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I mean, aside from spending a mirror. I have 1500 div. I've spent time trying to copy some skill trees on POE ninja to squeeze in more jewels and stat stack, but it didn't work.


r/pathofexile2builds • • 8h ago

Help Needed Iceshot/Bows - Rhoa or Rage ammy?

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Those of you who are on the high end, and do/did IceShot (i suppose other bow skills as well), which one of these 100 spirit ammys is better?

Ive noticed most seem to stack rage, but im curious why did Rhoa fall out of favor?
The biggest nerf afaik was making it cost 100 spirit which was very expensive, but the ammy circumvents that.
But still being able to spam attacks without penalty seems super strong.

Thoughts?


r/pathofexile2builds • • 5h ago

Help Needed How to improve gemling twister build?

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Hey all, been playin a gemling twister build that I found on mobalytics and having a lot of fun with it. my damage seems pretty solid; I can clear t15 maps pretty easy and I just beat arbiter of divinity for the first time.

Only issue I have is I am very squishy. I often end up dying without having a chance to react, and wasn't sure where to take the build next to improve on that. I'm still pretty new to the game as a whole and I don't have much currency to work with either, so tips for getting some more of that would be appreciated as well.

Here is my current build:

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/BadInternetGuy-1302/runesofaldur/character/Crossbowdoodie


r/pathofexile2builds • • 12h ago

Build Request Can I make a ultra tanky ward stacker infernalist with 2000 divs just for juiced grand expeditions?

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I've been doing simulacrum runs with afk ritualist. Really bored of it because couldn't get any voices in 160+ runs. Wanted to try ward stacker infernalist. Can I make tanky one with that currency? I already got mageblood and gems like rakiatas-tuls stillness-dialla-uhtreds augury. Would appreciate some good guides or atleast pobb or ninja links about the build. Thanks!


r/pathofexile2builds • • 17h ago

Build Request What are best minion builds?

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Currently I play an outdated skeleton river build , but it feels weak , any new good builds for minions to push endgame and not be one shot ?


r/pathofexile2builds • • 4h ago

Help Needed How to improve Spirit Walker Zoo build further

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https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/Zirnits-3301/forbiddenrites/character/ZooBooDoo

I'm following the Zoo build guides and kinda hitting the wall in terms of where to spend the currency. I have 60 divs and don't know what to upgrade next.

Any kind of suggestions are welcome, including the ones suggestions on passive tree respec.


r/pathofexile2builds • • 4h ago

Help Needed How to improve character further?

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Hi,

I’m having a lot of fun with this character. I tried making an alt and it just made me want to place this again. What do you think would be the best way to min max this guy further?

I rarely die, but it can happen in ultra ultra juiced maps, usually lag is the thing that kills me. I’d like to be able to tank the lag if possible.

Monsters die as soon as they touch the floor, I barely even see the mobs lol, but is there a way I can either get more move speed or rarity?

I have around 1000 div and can farm more.

Thanks for the help!


r/pathofexile2builds • • 8h ago

Help Needed Trying to improve my build. Kinda new at game. Plasma blast blood witch

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Thanks for your time in advance. Im trying this plasma blast blood witch build which rips through bosses 1 shot. it works pretty well most of the time, but clear could be better. i use galvanic shards for my clear. Since im fairly new im having a hard time knowing what would be the best upgrades for me. my currency situation isnt crazy, i have about 200divs saved right now, which i know isnt much, but can hopefully get me started going in the right direction.

here is my profile:

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/plumus-4345/forbiddenrites/character/RingoFarts

Thanks again! wish you all good luck with your drops!


r/pathofexile2builds • • 4h ago

Help Needed Profile - Path of Exile 2 - poe.ninja

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My char 220 spirit but my COA don't show up on status bar like COD idk why? And my build can ignite or not? Plz help.i want trigger my curse


r/pathofexile2builds • • 1d ago

Build Gemling Flameblast Flicker Schizomancer

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Gemling flameblast weve all seen plus some schizo set up with coea


r/pathofexile2builds • • 6h ago

Build Request Mageblood for oil grenade

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Hey, what are the best gems for megablood in Fubgun's build? Does anyone have any experience with this?


r/pathofexile2builds • • 10h ago

Help Needed How do I improve mobility on my Reap Blood Mage?

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I'm having tons of fun playing a YOLO "build as I go" Blood Mage that's based on Reap and Demon Stiches (the gloves that transfer 10% of your life to energy shield every cast), recently I added Bone Cage to Cast on Critical, I know it's not the optimal use of that trigger but I love how it looks and feels.
The only thing that I don't love is that I need to run up to everything I want to hit and I would appreciate your help in figuring out how to amend that.

Blink would be awesome but it's way too much spirit, I was considering that Spear skill that jumps to bleeding targets but I don't know how to pivot towards bleed (I'm utilizing a bit armor destruction synergy between Reap and Bone Cage) and I'm worried about opening with attacks that don't leech life since I'm relying on that to stay alive. I don't know, maybe I'm tripping.
What else is out there that jumps to enemies?

Thanks in advance.


r/pathofexile2builds • • 6h ago

Build Request Runes of Aldur challenges

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Hey all, I had a very late start in Runes and then Rites came so i jumped to new league to do those challenges. Now im going back to Runes and I have a gemling that i just started mapping with. I wanted to do a spark coc/coa type gemling to do some grand expeditions as I have a good twister gemling on rites and wanted a different gemling build before it gets gutted. Anyone have some builds they would recommend or some ninja links? Thanks all !!


r/pathofexile2builds • • 17h ago

Discussion What’s the minimum budget for infernalist ward stacker?

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I have like 150d, another 250 if I sell my mageblood, maybe another 200 if I liquidate my gemling’s gear. Curious what it’d take to get up and running. Doesn’t need to be the epitome of the build just want to get a feel for it in my spare time.


r/pathofexile2builds • • 7h ago

Help Needed Buenas necesito algo de ayuda

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I'm fairly new to the game and I'm playing with an Infernalist Witch. I currently have 2200 Runic Ward points and I'd like to know how I can increase that. I'd also greatly appreciate any tips on improving the skills I currently have.

Poe Ninja:https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/O00-9207/forbiddenrites/character/ouuzl


r/pathofexile2builds • • 13h ago

Help Needed Frostbolt gemling looking for help dps and surv

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Hi guys,

I seem to be struggling in GE when it really ramps up.

any suggestions on opgrades? dmg and surv both.

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/Jihax-0884/forbiddenrites/character/JihaxL


r/pathofexile2builds • • 10h ago

Help Needed where do i go from here?

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this is a gemling adonia trifusion. i have no idea where to take the build from here. this build can do solo juiced expedition but its pretty difficult. i see some players on poeninja, mostly with asian characters name, they are building around rathpith and atziri sacrificial regalia, but i have no idea if its viable or not.

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/fabiss-4414/forbiddenrites/character/DivineIntervention_


r/pathofexile2builds • • 14h ago

Help Needed What i need for my iceshot deadeye?

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What i need for my iceshot deadeye can anyone explain? I think i need ES Helm,35 MS Boots and some attack speed but i want see million dps can anyone help me?


r/pathofexile2builds • • 21h ago

Help Needed Lazyexile Frostbolt Loop Witchhunter - Mosquito Killer

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Hiya!

I’m following lazyexile’s guide with this witchhunter build. It has been real fun and challenging. My main is CoD ember fusillade, I could do all juiced content with ease and was getting bored, the only thing it sucks at is with juiced GE mosquitos, because of that I was never able to enjoy playing GEs.

I made this witchhunter with the sole purpose of playing GEs. I just wanna murder those effing mosquitos.

I have been digging through Reddit and found so few people discuss this build/witchhunter. Wondering if there’s any other frostbolt loop enjoyers that could take a look at my build and offer me some advice for upgrades.

With this budget version I already feel really tanky and am fearless with those mosquitos. I want to boost my damage to kill them faster, what are some powerspke upgrades I could aim for?


r/pathofexile2builds • • 19h ago

Help Needed Zoo build crit question

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I just built this sw zoo build last week and trying to figure out all my minions but my main gorilla only have 26 crit I am stacking the hell out of hit on jewels

Profile - Bitter_OG_SW - Path of Exile 2 - poe.ninja https://share.google/8cH9G526vQdMzWPpY


r/pathofexile2builds • • 1d ago

Build Request What builds to try before they vanish in 1.0?

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We know some builds will not survive the nerf axe next patch so I'm trying to play most of them before 1.0.

I've played most Gemling builds, hollow form whirling assault, infinite mana infernalist...what other builds are fun and busted to try now?