Best Warrior Warbringer build in Path of Exile 2

Discover everything you need to know about the best Warrior Warbringer build in Path of Exile 2 and what makes this build stronger.

Path of Exile 2 has received an initial release on December 6, 2024. There are 12 distinct Classes, each granting its own uniqueness in the game. Unfortunately, the Classes in Path of Exile 2 are gender-locked, meaning you cannot choose the gender of a specific Class as it is predetermined. Selecting the best Warbringer build is crucial early because gameplay depends on it. Explore the Warbringer Build in Path of Exile 2 and see how he redefines gameplay! In this guide, we’ll discuss the Best Warbringer Build in Path of Exile 2 including the best gear and passive skills to use.

Warbringer build in Path of Exile 2 Explored

This Warrior Warbringer build in Path of Exile 2 focuses on the strength attribute that grants raw and massive damage. Shields, maces, and their two-handed counterparts that are strength-stunned are the primary weapons for this Class. Use Mace Strike, and Sunder for general clearing, and Herald of Ash will do loads of work. We include skills like Hammer of the Gods, Sunder, and Infernal Cry to make your character stronger and dominate anything coming in the path. Use Stampede for general clearing and Ancestral Warrior Totem to fully break enemies’ armour.

In this full overview of the setup, we will explain what skill gems and links you should focus on. Then as well, we’ll see what is the best gear and how to get it for both the leveling and midgame. And then, finally, we will go over the passive skill tree, stats, and your skill rotations, so we can get the greatest damage possible and much more.

Warbringer Build Pros	Warbringer Build Cons
High Survivability	Slower Movement
Stun Capabilities	Lower Damage Output
Versatile Weapon Use

Best Warbringer skills and support gems in Path of Exile 2

Here are all the best active skills and Support Gems for Best Warrior Warbringer build in Path of Exile 2.

• Hammer of the Gods
  • Lacerate (Support Gem)
  • Exploit Weakness (Support Gem)
  • Heft (Support Gem)
  • Deep Cuts (Support Gem)
• Sunder
  • Fist of War (Support Gem)
  • Hourglass (Support Gem)
  • Supercritical (Support Gem)
  • Concentrated Effect (Support Gem)
• Infernal Cry
  • Premeditation (Support Gem)
  • Raging Cry (Support Gem)
  • Enraged Warcry (Support Gem)
  • Lifetaps (Support Gem)
• Ancestral Warrior Totem
  • Armour Breaker (Support Gem)
  • Font of Rage (Support Gem)
  • Splinter (Support Gem)
• Herald of Ash
  • Precision (Support Gem)
  • Cannibalism (Support Gem)
  • Fire Mastery (Support Gem)
• Time of Need
  • Fast Forward (Support Gem)
  • Vitality (Support Gem)
  • Clarity (Support Gem)
• Scavenged Plating
  • Persistence (Support Gem)
  • Physical Mastery (Support Gem)
• Stampede
  • Armour Explosion (Support Gem)
  • Fire Infusion (Support Gem)
  • Magnified Effect (Support Gem)
  • Stomping Ground (Support Gem)
• Leap Slam
  • Martial Tempo (Support Gem)
  • Holy Descent (Support Gem)
  • Rage (Support Gem)

Hammer of the Gods

Entreats the ancestors to crush your enemies, manifesting a massive hammer that falls from the sky onto your target, slamming into the ground after a short duration, and dealing immense damage based on your weapon.

• Your hit can’t be evaded
• While Dual Wielding, both weapons hit with 30% less damage
• Impact radius is 2.4 seconds
• Hammerfall duration is 2.5 seconds

Additional effects from quality:

• (0-20)% increased cooldown recovery rate

Lacerate (Support Gem)

Supports any skill that hits enemies, giving it a chance to inflict bleeding.

• Supported Skills have 30% chance to inflict bleeding

Exploit Weakness (Support Gem)

Supports any skill hits enemies, causing them to deal more damage against enemies with broken armour but preventing them from breaking armour themselves. Cannot support skills that consume broken armour.

• Supports skills cannot break armour
• Supported skills consume enemy fully broken armour to deal 50% more damage

Heft (Support Gem)

Supports skills which deal damage, increasing the maximum physical damage of their hits.

• Supported Skills have 30% more maximum physical damage

Deep Cuts (Support Gem)

Supports any skill that hits enemies, causing it to deal less damage but inflict more potent bleeding.

• Supported skills deal 25% less damage with hits
• 75% more magnitude of bleeding inflicted with supported skills.

Sunder

Slams the ground, creating a roiling fissure that damages enemies in a sequence of areas in front of you. A number of enemies hit by the wave will release a shockwave, damaging other enemies.

• +1.4 seconds to Attack Time
• +0.2 metres to wave length for each wave in the Sequence
• 100% increased Critical Damage Bonus
• While Dual Wielding, both weapons hit with 30% less damage
• Consumes Fully Broken Armour on enemies to guarentee a Critical Hit
• Wave length is 0.9 metres
• Wave causes Shockwaves from up to 5 Enemies in each Area
• Shockwave radius is 1.2 metres

Additional Effects From Quality:

• 0(0-30)% Reduced Accuracy Penalty based on distance

Fist of War (Support Gem)

Supports slams you use yourself, providing ancestral boost every few seconds.

• Attacks with supported skill are ancestrally boosted, no more than once every 6 seconds

Hourglass (Support Gem)

Supports any damaging skill that you use yourself, causing it to deal significantly more damage but gain a long cooldown. Cannot support skills which already have a cooldown.

• Supported skills deal 40% more damage
• Supported skills have +10 seconds to cooldown

Super critical (Support Gem)

Supports any skill that hits enemies, causing it to deal more damage with critical hits but have less critical hit chance.

• 100% increased critical damage bonus
• Supported skills have 20% less critical hit chance

Concentrated Effect (Support Gem)

Supports any skill with an area of effect, causing that area to be smaller but any area damage it deals to be higher.

• Supported skills have 50% less area of effect
• Supported skills deal 40% more area damage

Infernal Cry

Performs a warcry, empowering subsequent attacks. Consumes all endurance charges to empower additional attacks. Enemies in the warcry’s area are destablished and will combust on death.

• Empowered attacks gain 25% of damage as fire damage per 5 power of enemies range, up to 100%
• Empowers the next melee attack you perform, plus an additional attack per endurance charge consumed
• (2-38)% increased warcry speed
• Destablishes enemies for 8 seconds
• Warcry radius is 4 metres

Additional effects from quality:

• Empowered attacks gain (0-10)% of damage as fire damage per 5 power of enemies in range, up to (0-50)%

Premeditation (Support Gem)

Supports skills that can empower skills other than themselves, causing skills they empower to deal more damage.

• Skills empowered by Supported skills deal 1515 more damage

Raging Cry (Support Gem)

Supports warcry skills, causing them to grant you Rage on use depending on counted monster power.

• Supported skills grant 4 Rage per 5 power of counted enemies in range

Enraged Warcry (Support Gem)

Supports Warcries, causing them to consume rage to further boost empowered attacks.

• Supported warcries consume up to 10 Rage, causing attacks empowered by them to deal 30% more damage

Lifetap (Support Gem)

Supports any skill, turning a portion of its mana cost into a life cost. Does not support skills which reserve spirit.

• Skill mana costs converted to life costs

Ancestral Warrior Totem

Raises a Totem that uses socketed Mace skills. Cannot use skills with Cooldowns.

• Totem duration is 8 seconds
• Limit 1 Totem
• Totem base attack time is 1 second
• Totem uses its own weapon, dealing 59 to 89 Base Physical Damage

Additional Effects From Quality:

• Totem duration is 0(0-0.4) seconds

Armour Breaker (Support Gem)

Attack with a forceful blow, knocking enemies back and weakening their armour.

• Knock enemies back on hit
• +2 to melee strike range
• 40% more attack speed while dual wielding
• Hits break (4-5123) armour

Additional effects from Quality:

• Break (0-20)% increased armour

Font of Rage (Support Gem)

Supports skills which create stationary objects. Objects created by supported skills generate a Font of Rage, creating an aura which grants Rage over time, as well as preventing Rage loss.

• Fonts of Rage from supported skills grant 2 Rage regeneration per second to you and your allies
• Objects created by supported skills create a Font of Rage with a 3 metre radius

Splinter (Support Gem)

Supports skills that hit enemies, causing those hits to break armour based on a portion of physical damage dealt.

• Break armour equal to 15% of physical damage dealt by supported skill

Herald of Ash

While active, enemies you sufficiently overkill with attacks will cause an explosion that Ignites nearby enemies based on the overkill damage dealt.

• Explosion Radius is 1 Metre
• Ignite Duration is 3 Seconds
• Base Ignite Damage is 17.67% of Overkill Damage
• Ignite Surrounding enemies is overkill Damage is at least 20% of enemy’s maximum life

Additional Effects From Quality:

• Ignite surrounding enemies if Overkill damage is at least (0–2)% of enemy’s maximum Life

Precision (Support Gem)

Supports persistent buff skills, causing you to gain increased accuracy while the skill is active.

• 30% increased accuracy rating while a supported skill is active

Cannibalism (Support Gem)

Supports persistent buff skills, causing you to recover Life on kill while the skill is active.

• 4% of Life recovered on kill while a supported skill is active

Fire Mastery (Support Gem)

Supports fire skill, granting them an additional level.

• +1 to level of supported fire skills

Time of Need

Invokes divine blessings, periodically healing you and removing Curses and Elemental Ailments from you.

• 11.1 Second Duration between Blessings
• Blessing Recovers 166 Life and Removes Curses and Elemental Ailments

Additional Effects from Quality:

• Blessing Recovers 0(0-40) Life and Removes Curses and Elemental Ailments

Fast Forward (Support Gem)

Supports any skill that has a duration, making that duration shorter.

• Supported skills have 30% less skill effect duration

Vitality (Support Gem)

Supports persistent buff skills, causing you to gain Life regeneration while the skill is active.

• Regenerate 1% of Life per second while a supported skill is active

Clarity (Support Gem)

Supported persistent buff skills, causing you to gain increased mana regeneration while the skill is active

• 30% increased mana regeneration rate while a supported skill is active

Scavenged Plating

Uses fragments of armour scavenged from enemies to bolster your own. Fully Breaking an enemy’s Armour grants you a stack of Scavenged Plating for a duration, and you gain Armour and Thorns per stack.

• Scavenged Plating duration is 8 seconds
• 3% more Armour per Scavenged Plating
• Maximum 10 Scavenged Plating
• 4 to 6 Thorns per Scavenged Plating

Additional Effects from Quality:

• 0(0-2)% more Armour per Scavenged Plating

Persistence (Support Gem)

Supports any skill that has a duration, making that duration longer.

• Supported Skills have 40% more skill effect duration

Physical Mastery (Support Gem)

Supports physical skills, granting them an additional level.

• +1 to level of supported physical skills

Stampede

Charges forward, cracking the earth and leaving a patch of Jagged Ground with every footstep. At the end of your charge, a massive leaping Slam damages enemies and causes all patches of Jagged Ground to erupt in Aftershocks.

• While Dual Wielding, both weapons deal 30% less damage
• Jagged Ground duration is 6 seconds
• Impact and Jagged  Ground radius is 1.2 metres
• While Dual Wielding, both weapons deal 30% less damage
• Impact radius is 3.2 metres
• Detonates Jagged Ground within 3.2 metres radius of Slam and each patch of Jagged Ground detonated

Additional Effects From Quality:

• 0(0-30)% chance to cause Aftershocks

Armour Explosion (Support Gem)

Supports attacks, causing them to trigger a fiery explosion when they fully break an enemy’s armour.

• Supported skills trigger an explosion when they fully break an enemy’s armour

Fire Infusion (Support Gem)

Supports attacks, causing them to gain fire damage but deal less cold and lightning damage.

• Supported attacks gain 25% of damage as extra fire damage
• Supported attacks deal 50% less cold and lightning damage

Magnified Effect (Support Gem)

Supports any skill with an area of effect, making it larger.

• Supports skills have 40% more area of effect

Stomping Ground (Support Gem)

Supports travel skills, causing your footsteps to crack the earth and emit damaging shockwaves while using the skill.

• Triggers a shockwave when you take a step while using supported skills

Leap Slam

Jump into the air, damaging and knocking back enemies with your mace where you lang. Enemies you would land on are pushed out of the way.

• +0.65 seconds to Total Attack Time, plus up to +0.35 seconds based on distance travelled
• When Dual Wielding, both weapons hit with 30% less damage
• 26% more stun buildup
• Impact radius is 2.5 metres
• Consumes Fully Broken Armour on Enemies to cause 500% more Stun buildup

Additional Effects From Quality:

• 0(0-15)% less damage with hits against enemies with Fully Broken Armour

Martial Tempo (Support Gem)

Supports attacks, causing them to attack faster.

• Supported Skills have 25% more attack speed

Holy Descent (Support Gem)

Supports skills that leap into the air, causing them to create concentrated ground when you land.

• Supported skills create concentrated ground for 4 seconds on landing

Rage (Support Gem)

Supports melee attacks, causing them to grant Rage on hit.

• Supported skills grant Rage on melee hit

Best Warbringer Stat Priorities

Warrior in Path of Exile 2 excels in melee combat, emphasizing strength and durability. Focus on stats that enhance your melee damage, boost Mana, and improve attack speed and accuracy. Your defensive stats must focus on reducing physical and magical damage taken and enhancing the health pool along with the regenerating buffer. The offensive stats should increase your damage output, attack power, and control during combat.

Regular stats

• Strength
• Intelligence
• Dexterity

Strength is a crucial stat for Warrior because you’re leveling up the quality of gear while leveling up in the game. You get higher armour and energy shield stats for better survivability in combat. Focus on Intelligence too because your playstyle revolves around spamming abilities to enhance the damage and you get more Mana from Intelligence.

Defensive stats

• Armour
• Energy shield
• Regenerate life per second
• Maximum life
• Movement speed
• Evasion

Evasion is not a priority of Warrior, so armour and Energy Shield are the best defensive stats. The armour reduces the physical and magic damage you take and the Energy shield grants a regenerating shield that can tank some initial hits. Improve your movement speed to get more flexibility to evade attacks. The movement speed boost depends on the gear you equip and also through passive skills. Focus on improving health regeneration and maximum life. These stats are crucial to staying alive and being confident to jump into battle.

Offensive stats

• Physical damage
• Critical hit chance
• Stun Threshold

Prioritize physical damage and critical hit chance for the massive damage output. These stats will improve automatically when you get better weapons and armour. Boost your stun threshold as this is the key to this build.

Best Warbringer Passive Skills

Path of Exile 2 offers passive skill nodes that we recommend grabbing when you can because they’re highly effective. The Warbringer has stronger early options for the passive skill, enhancing the initial survivability. However, if you want to min-max more, they are easily respec-ed. You will get a massive boost to attack power and rate without depending on flasks. Consider picking notable passives in the star-shaped cluster from your starting point.

• Prolonged Fury- Inherent loss of Rage is 25% slower.
• Reverberating Impact- 16% increased area of effect for attacks. Break 25% increased armour.
• Defender’s Resolve- 12% increased block chance. Stagger empties 50% faster while your shield is lowered.
• Lay Siege- 1% increased damage per 1% chance to block.
• Blurred Motion- 5% increased Dexterity. 5% increased attack speed. 10% increased accuracy rating.
• Giant’s Blood- You can wield two-handed Axes, Maces, and Swords in one hand triple attribute requirements of weapons.
• Brute Strength- 1% increased damage per 15 Strengths.
• Unbending- 30% increased stun Threshold. 3% increased maximum Life.
• Devastation- 15% increased attack area damage, 15% increased area of effect for attacks.
• Carved Earth- 20% increased totem damage, 6% increased attack and cast speed if you’ve summoned a totem recently.

How Skill Tree is Set in POE 2

For most new players, the passive skill tree is extremely daunting but actually, it’s quite simple. A character is granted one passive skill point every time they level up and are sometimes even granted more from completing certain quests. We have the intelligence section that focuses on spell damage, summoning, and elemental damage.

Next, we have the Dexterity section which is more focused on ranged combat, evasion, and speed. At the bottom left, we have the Strength section which is more melee and defense-oriented. Next, we’ve passive nodes and they are split into two categories. The small passives that grant minor bonuses such as a small increase in attack speed, spell damage, melee damage, or attributes.

Second, we’ve notable passives. These are larger passive points that grant greater bonuses than the smaller ones but they have stats on them that are often closely related to the small passives leading up to them. Think of these as checkpoints to work towards. On top of this, we have a third passive point but is not entirely compared to the two others. For the third one, we have the keystones which are build changing character defining that often provide a massive amount of power with a downside. However, these downsides can be reduced or worked towards.

Following a specific setup is extremely useful and understanding the passive skill tree can make or break your character. Investing more time in this specific section will definitely upgrade your knowledge of the game.

Best Warbringer Gear

Gear in the Warbringer build allows you to handle the tougher battle in Path of Exile 2. Armour reduces fire, lightning, and cold damage that you take in combat.

Gear Slot	Gear	Requirement	Effect
Main Hand Weapon	Advanced Crumbling Maul	62 level, 142 str.	Causes enemies to explode on critical kill, for 10% of their Life as physical damage Adds (29-44) to (50-75) physical damage (155-169)% increased physical damage +3 to level of all melee skills +(28-30) to Strength (17-19)% increased attack speed
Offhand weapon	Expert Rampart Tower Shield	70 level, 129 str.	Grants skills: Raise Shield +(120-149) to maximum Life (45-50)% increased armour +(82-106) to armour +(31-33) to Strength +(20-23)% to Chaos resistance +(36-40)% to Fire resistance
Helmet	Expert Elite Greathelm	75 level, 139 str.	+(200-214) to maximum Life +(34-36) to Strength +(17-18) to all elemental resistances
Body Armour	Expert Vaal Cuirass	45 level, 157 str.	(30-40)% increased Stun Threshold +(200-214) to maximum Life +(34-36) to Strength +(41-45)% to lightning resistance
Belt	Heavy Belt	50 level	(20-30)% increased Stun Threshold +(150-174) to maximum Life +(225-255) to armour +2 Charm Slots +(34-36) to Strength
Gloves	Advanced Bolstered Mitts	55 level, 88 str	+(150-174) to maximum Life (39-44)% increased armour +1 to the level of all Melee Skills (14-16)% increased attack speed +(36-40)% to Cold Resistance
Boots	Advanced Bronze Greaves	51 level, 88 str	35% increased movement speed +(150-174) to maximum Life (45-50)% increases armor +(26-30)% to Fire Resistance +(20-23)% to Chaos Resistance +(36-40)% to Lightning Resistance
Ring 1	Amethyst Ring	20 level	+(7-13)% to Chaos Resistance +(150-174) to maximum Life Adds (10-15) to (18-26) physical damage to attacks +(34-26) to Strength +(36-40)% to Lightning Resistance +(21-22) to all Attributes
Ring 2	Sapphire Ring	12 level	+(20-30) to cold resistance
Amulet	Lapis Amulet	8 level	+(10-15) to Intelligence

How to Play Warbringer in Path of Exile 2

Understanding your role as a Warrior in Path of Exile is crucial for every aspect. The Warrior excels in dealing heavy damage while lasting foes deadly attacks. Focus on both offense and defense strategies. Use the Earthquake or Ground Slam for dealing high damage with light and heavy attacks. Mauls and Greatswords are the best weapons to equip for physical and AoE damage. Utilize one-handed weapons paired with shields for balanced damage.

Improve your blocking endurance charges and resistances by focusing on passives. Weapons swapping is crucial to maintain flexibility. Use two-handed weapons for clearing mobs and one-handed weapons for tough boss fights. Do not spam skills and try to manage stamina to neglect being left vulnerable in a fight. Get close to enemies to enhance the damage but don’t get surrounded while playing a defensive role.

Improve survivability and damage outcome by timing mobility skills accurately. Use life nodes and physical damage while leveling. You can also equip the effective gear to maximize damage and durability.

Best Warrior Warbringer Build in Path of Exile 2 Summary

FAQs about Best Warrior Warbringer build in Path of Exile 2 (POE 2)?

How important is gear for my Warbringer build?

Gear in Path of Exile 2 is crucial for any build, including your Warbringer build. The Gears determine how strong and survivable your build will be in combat. Gear in the Warbringer build allows you to handle the tougher battle in Path of Exile 2, so always focus on improving gear through crafting, buying, or farming.

How do I acquire Warbringer’s new skills?

Yes, you can respec your Warbringer build by refunding passive skill points through The Hooded One, an NPC located in the Clearfell Encampment. Complete the “Sorrow Among Stones” quest in Act 1, to unlock this feature. However, it will take you 2 to 5 hours, depending on your pace.

Can I respec my Warbringer build if I make a mistake?

The Warrior class in Path of Exile 2 has a wide variety of skills, primarily centered around elemental damage. Getting new skills involves obtaining skill gems that you can socket into the equipment to grant corresponding abilities. You can obtain the skill gems while progressing through the campaign or you can purchase the skill gems from the vendors. Use the support gems to increase the strengthen the effects of your primary skills.

What’s the best way to level up the Warbringer build quickly?

The best way to level up the Warrior Warbringer build quickly is by selecting skills, ascendancies, and equipment, and employing synergistic combat techniques. Enhance your gear and equipment and optimize the skill gem selection.

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