The Lightning Spear Huntress build is centered around the Poe 2 trade Lightning Spear skill, a powerful ranged attack that channels electricity through the spear, dealing lightning damage to enemies in its path. With its ability to chain, pierce, and electrify multiple enemies, this build excels in both single-target damage and clearing large packs of enemies.
In addition to its potent DPS output, the Lightning Spear Huntress also leverages mobility and utility, using the Huntress' agility and speed to avoid incoming damage while maintaining high offensive potential. The skill benefits from both critical strike chances and elemental damage modifiers, making it an ideal choice for those who enjoy explosive lightning-based gameplay with the flexibility to scale as you progress through POE2's late-game content.
Core Mechanics of the Lightning Spear Huntress
At the heart of the Lightning Spear Huntress build is the Lightning Spear skill itself. This skill summons a spear of lightning energy, which is thrown in a straight line or arcs between multiple enemies, dealing high elemental damage and applying various debuffs to enemies. The spear's behavior can be customized through a number of modifiers on your gear and passive skill tree.
Key Mechanics
Projectile Damage: The Lightning Spear is a projectile attack, so it benefits from increased projectile speed, projectile damage, and area-of-effect scaling. This means that positioning and attack angle are crucial for maximizing its damage potential, especially in high-density combat situations.
Chain & Pierce: The skill can be modified to chain across multiple enemies, allowing for a large area of coverage. Additionally, Pierce modifiers allow the spear to hit multiple enemies in a single attack, making it ideal for clearing large packs of monsters.
Lightning Damage Scaling: This build prioritizes scaling the Lightning damage, as most of the skill's damage is based on elemental lightning damage and critical strikes. As such, you'll need to stack as much lightning damage and critical strike chance as possible through passive nodes, gear, and support gems.
Critical Strikes: The Lightning Spear has high synergy with critical strike multipliers, so scaling critical strike chance and cheap POE 2 Exalted Orbs critical strike multiplier is an integral part of the build. This will increase your damage output significantly, especially in high-end content.
