The new class Huntress in Path of Exile 2 performs mediocrely in the campaign phase, but she is extremely dominant in the endgame. Huntress can fight in close combat or at range, and can deal high damage with just her skills.
Amazon Lightning Spear build is a further improvement on this. Amazon has high damage and chief defense, which can quickly clear monsters on the screen and easily kill bosses.
Pros And Cons
Pros
- Insane initial damage for low investment
- Clears the entire screen of monsters
- Mobile ranged playstyle
Cons
- No life stealing
- Medium survivability
- Damage ramps up
Amazon Lightning Spear Skills
Skill Gem + Support Skill Gems
- Lightning Spear: Volt, Bullseye, Perpetual Charge, Fork, Longshot
- Storm Lance: Primal Armament, Overextend, Lightning Infusion, Blindside, Deliberation
- Sniper’s Mark: Mobility, Inspiration, Ingenuity, Arcane Tempo
- Thunderous Leap: Martial Tempo
- Infuse Weapon: Neural Overload, Blind, Conduction, Lightning Exposure, Strip Away
- Spearfield: Rage, Rearm, Encumbrance, Soul Thief
Spirit Gems + Support Skill Gems
- Herald of Thunder: Reach Innervate, Elemental Focus, Deadly Herald
- Wind Dancer Life Thief: Arms Length, Punch Through
- Combat Frenzy: Profusion Precision
Key Skill Gems require Support Skill Gems. You can use a Jeweler’s Orb to open up your Skill Gem to 4 sockets, but Perfect Jeweler’s Orb is usually hard to get. You can buy POE2 Currency or trade with other players to get it.
Spirit Gems require Spirit to function properly. You can get 100 Spirit points by defeating The King in the Mists in Act I, Normal Difficulty, and Ignagduk in Act III, Normal Difficulty and Brutal Difficulty.
How To Use Skills?
Lightning Spear: Throws a copy of the spear. When it hits an enemy, it explodes and deals damage to nearby enemies.
This skill is your board clearing skill. It can only play the most damage when it has Frenzy Charges and Volt Charges. Make sure you have 20 Volt Charges, ideally 30 Volt Charges, which can be replenished by moving.
Storm Lance: You can summon 4 charged spears that deal heavy damage to a single enemy. You can use this skill against bosses and elite enemies.
Sniper’s Mark: Marks a target, causing your next attack to deal extra damage and generate Frenzy Charges. This skill allows you to burst out higher damage while constantly generating combat resources.
When facing a high-health enemy, you need to combine Storm Lance and Sniper’s Mark so that you can reduce its health more efficiently.
Ascendancy
You can complete Trial of the Sekhemas in Act 2 at lv 20-30. You need to choose Amazon because its passive skill point gives you a high critical hit rate.
Ascendancy node selection:
- Accuracy and Critical Strike: Accuracy can increase the probability of Critical Strike.
- Skill Speed and Predatory Instinct: Increase the multiplier of damage to bosses.
- Elemental Damage and Elemental Infusion: Consume Frenzy Charges to allow spear throws to deal with additional elemental damage.
- Accuracy and Penetrate: Increase physical damage based on weapon accuracy.
Gear
Although there are many unique items in Path of Exile 2, these items are often not powerful enough. The truly powerful items are often rare items with top-level affixes. It will cost a lot of POE 2 currency to create a top-level rare item to get a top-level affix.
Therefore, I will not recommend specific equipment to you below, but the best affixes for each equipment:
Spear
- Prefix: Increase physical damage or accuracy
- Suffix: Increase attack speed/critical damage/critical chance
Buckler
- Prefix: Increase block chance/maximum health/evasion
- Suffix: Increase cold/fire/lightning/chaos resistance
Helmet
- Prefix: maximum health/evasion
- Suffix: Increase cold/fire/lightning/chaos resistance or critical chance
Body Armor
- Prefix: maximum health/evasion
- Suffix: Increase cold/fire/lightning/chaos resistance
Gloves
- Prefix: Increase maximum health/physical damage/lightning damage/accuracy level
- Suffix: Increase attack speed/cold, fire, lightning and chaos resistance/restore mana after killing an enemy
Boots
- Prefix: Increase movement speed/maximum health/dodge
- Suffix: increase cold/fire/lightning/chaos resistance, or increase character attributes
Amulet
- Prefix: increase maximum health/spirit/dodge
- Suffix: increase projectile skill level/critical hit chance/increase critical hit damage
Left Ring Slot
- Prefix: increase maximum health/physical or lightning damage/accuracy dodge
- Suffix: increase character attributes/cold, fire, lightning and chaos resistance/restore mana after killing an enemy
Right Ring Slot
- Prefix: increase maximum health/physical or lightning damage/accuracy dodge
- Suffix: increase character attributes/cold, fire, lightning and chaos resistance/restore mana after killing an enemy
Belt
- Prefix: increase maximum health/flask health recovery rate/armor
- Suffix: increase/cold, fire, lightning and chaos resistance/rune slot/strength
Jewels
- Prefix: Increases attack/projectile lightning damage, or increases lightning resistance penetration and critical damage anomaly strength
- Suffix: Increases critical hit chance/critical damage/attack speed, or restores mana after killing monsters
Flask
- Prefix: Increases recovery amount
- Suffix: Increases recharge or increases recharge gain
Besides rare items with the above affixes, the two unique items The Black Insignia (helmet) and Death Rush (Ring) are also suitable for this build.
Lightning Spear Amazon build does not rely on good equipment, but equipment with excellent modifiers can improve your monster farming efficiency and increase the tolerance of boss battles. If you get a good base equipment during the game, you can try to buy POE 2 Orbs to improve its quality and affixes.