Path of Exile 2: Lightning Spear Amazon Build

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

The Lightning Spear Amazon build in Path of Exile 2 is a lightning-elemental-focused build that revolves around using Lightning Spear. This unique setup offers fast-paced ranged combat with high mobility and dodging through enemies. This mapping build takes the Amazon ascendancy and uses it for fast and efficient mapping. It is simple to play from the mid to the end game, especially for bossing. This is the best build for you if you prefer throwing some spears and watching things get zapped to death.

Choosing the best stats, ascendancy, gear, and passive skills is crucial for this build, as your gameplay mostly depends on them. In this guide, we’ll discuss the Lightning Spear Amazon Build in Path of Exile 2, including the best gear and passive skills to use on the battlefield. In this guide, we’ll discuss the Best Bleed Huntress Build in Path of Exile 2, including the best gear and passive skills to use.

Lightning Spear Amazon Build in Path of Exile 2 Explored

Lightning Spear Amazon build in Path of Exile 2 offers versatile playstyles and focuses on ranged attacks using lightning-infused spears. Our build includes weapons like Grand Spear and Aegis Buckler to deal massive damage in tough encounters. Use the Buckler to parry the enemy attacks for a follow-up counterattack. Lightning Spear, Primal Strikes, Thunderous Leap, Disengage, Companion: (0), Cast on Shock, Wind Dancer, Herald of Thunder, Infuse Weapon, and Combat Frenzy are the best skills for the Lightning Spear Amazon build. We add the support skills that complement your skills and make them even more effective while battling enemies. Death Rush has great modifiers because we benefit from Accuracy more than any other class. Swap between the Combat Frenzy and Companion (0) for bossing. However, this setup highly depends on gear and requires proper resource management.

Lightning Spear Amazon Build Pros	Lightning Spear Amazon Build Cons
High Clear Speed	Gear dependency
Safe Ranged Playstyle	Resource Management
More Versatility

Best Lightning Spear Amazon skills and support gems in Path of Exile 2

Here are all the best active skills and Support Gems for the Best Lightning Spear Amazon build in Path of Exile 2.

• Lightning Spear
  • Martial Tempo (Support Gem)
  • Primal Armament (Support Gem)
  • Longshot (Support Gem)
  • Volt (Support Gem)
  • Bullseye (Support Gem)
• Primal Strikes
  • Pursuit (Support Gem)
  • Concentrated Effect (Support Gem)
  • Lightning Infusion (Support Gem)
  • Elemental Focus (Support Gem)
  • Excoriate (Support Gem)
• Thunderous Leap
  • Fist of War (Support Gem)
  • Hit and Run (Support Gem)
• Disengage
  • Rage (Support Gem)
• Companion: (0)
  • Meat Shield (Support Gem)
  • Elemental Army (Support Gem)
  • Loyalty (Support Gem)
• Cast on Shock
  • Sniper’s Mark (Support Gem)
  • Lifetap (Support Gem)
  • Impetus (Support Gem)
  • Profusion (Support Gem)
• Wind Dancer
  • Precision (Support Gem)
  • Clarity (Support Gem)
• Herald of Thunder
  • Innervate (Support Gem)
  • Magnified Effect (Support Gem)
  • Persistence (Support Gem)
  • Neural Overload (Support Gem)
  • Electrocute (Support Gem)
• Infuse Weapon
  • Cold Mastery (Support Gem)
  • Fire Mastery (Support Gem)
  • Lightning Mastery (Support Gem)
  • Execute (Support Gem)
• Combat Frenzy

Lightning Spear

Throw a single copy of your spear. When it hits an enemy, it bursts, firing secondary lightning bolt Projectiles at multiple other enemies within a large area around it. Consumes a Frenzy Charge if possible to cause the main spear to split into multiple copies on impact, each of which then bursts.

• Cannot Pierce
• Converts 80% of Physical Damage to Lightning Damage
• 100% more chance to Shock
• Cannot Chain
• Projectiles can split from hitting terrain
• Spear cannot Pierce, Fork, Chain or Return
• Modifiers to the number of Projectiles fired only affect
• the maximum number of lightning bolt Projectiles
• Splits towards 3 targets when Consuming a Frenzy Charge
• Deals 50% more damage when consuming a Frenzy Charge
• Fires (0–2) Projectiles

Martial Tempo (Support Gem)

Supports Attacks, causing them to Attack faster.

• Supported Skills have 25% more Attack Speed

Primal Armament (Support Gem)

Supports Attacks that use a weapon, causing them to deal more weapon Elemental Damage.

• Supported Skills deal 25% more Weapon Elemental Damage

Longshot (Support Gem)

Supports Attacks, causing them to deal more damage from farther away.

• Supported Skills deal 30% more Attack damage to enemies further than 7 metres from you, scaling down to No Bonus at 3.5 metres or closer

Volt (Support Gem)

Supports Projectile Attack Skills you use yourself. Supported Skills gain Voltaic Charge as you move, up to a maximum. When used, Supported Skills expend that Charge to gain extra Lightning Damage and Chain.

• Supported Skills gain 3 Voltaic Charge per Meter travelled
• Supported Skills have 30 maximum Voltaic Charge
• Supported Skills consume all Voltaic Charge on use
• Supported Skills Chain 1 time per ten Voltaic Charge consumed
• Supported Skills gain 5% of Damage as extra Lightning Damage per ten Voltaic Charge consumed

Bullseye (Support Gem)

Supports Attacks, causing them to gain Accuracy.

• Supported skills have 50% more Accuracy Rating

Primal Strikes

Perform a Lightning-charged stab that can be chained into a combination of up to three attacks. The first two attacks conjure a charging Wildwood spirit if they hit a Shocked enemy and refresh the duration of the shock. The third attack is a large swipe that inflicts Lightning Exposure and can Consume Shock to conjure a stampede of spirits.

• Supported Skills cannot inflict Shock
• Converts 40% of Physical Damage to Lightning Damage
• +5 to Melee Strike range
• 0(0-25)% increased Critical Damage bonus

Pursuit (Support Gem)

Supports Melee Attacks. Supported Skills deal more Melee damage if you have struck with a Projectile Attack Hit in the last eight seconds but cannot themselves deal Projectile Damage.

• Supported Skills deal 25% more melee damage if you have damaged an enemy with a projectile attack hit in the last eight seconds.
• Supported Skills deal no projectile damage.

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

Lightning Infusion (Support Gem)

Supports attacks, causing them to gain Lightning Damage but deal less Cold and Fire Damage.

• Supported attacks gain 25% of damage as extra Lightning Damage
• Supported attacks deal 50% less Cold and Fire Damage

Elemental Focus (Support Gem)

Supports any skill that hits enemies, causing it to deal more Elemental Damage but be unable to inflict Elemental Ailments.

• Supported Skills cannot inflict Elemental Ailments
• Supported Skills deals 25% more Elemental Damage.

Excoriate (Support Gem)

Supports Melee Attack Skills. Supported Skills deal more Melee Damage for each Elemental Ailment on Enemies they hit but cannot themselves inflict Elemental Ailments.

• Supported Skills cannot inflict elemental ailments.
• Supported Skills deal 10% more melee damage for each elemental ailment on enemies they hit.

Thunderous Leap

Leap into the air and plunge your Spear into the ground at the target location, emitting a Lightning-charged shockwave.

• Converts 70% of Physical Damage to Lightning Damage
• +1.1 seconds to Total Attack Time
• Shockwave radius is 2.5 metres
• +0(0-0.5) metres to Shockwave radius

Fist of War (Support Gem)

Supports Slams you use yourself, providing a powerful Ancestral Boost every few seconds.

• Attacks with Supported Skill are Ancestrally Boosted, no more than once every 6 seconds

Hit and Run (Support Gem)

Supports Attack Skills you use yourself which do not have already have some Condition for use. Supported Skills can only be used after you have moved a certain distance but have massively increased Skill Speed. Cannot support Skills which have a Cooldown or that are Triggered.

• Supported Skills become usable after you have moved 10 metres. Supported Skills become unusable again after use.
• Supported Skills have 40% more skill speed.

Disengage

Jump back as you rupture the earth in front of you with spear points, damaging enemies. Consumes the Parried Debuff on hitting enemies to release a shockwave and grant you a Frenzy Charge. This skill can be used while using other skills and causes Strikes and Projectiles to miss you while jumping. This skill cannot be Ancestrally Boosted.

• 0.2 seconds to Total Attack Time
• +25 to Melee Strike Range
• (0-20)% Increased Cooldown Recovery Rate
• Supported skills consume parried debuff on hit to generate a frenzy charge

Rage (Support Gem)

Supports Melee Attacks, causing them to grant Rage on Hit.

• Supported Skills grant 3 Rage on Melee Hit.

Companion: (0)

Summon a reviving beast companion to aid you in combat.

• (0-10)% reduced reservation of skills

Meat Shield (Support Gem)

Supports skills that create minions, granting them less damage taken but making them deal less damage. Cannot support skills that create Undamageable minions.

• Minion from Supported Skills deal 35% less damage
• ・Minions from Supported Skills have 35% less damage

Elemental Army (Support Gem)

Supports skills which create Minions, bolstering the Elemental Resistance of those Minions.

• Minions from supported skills have +30% to all elemental resistances

Loyalty (Support Gem)

Supports Skills that create Companions which can be damaged. Minions created by Supported Skills take a portion of Hit Damage you would otherwise have taken but have lowered maximum Life.

• 10% of Damage from Hits is taken from the Supported Companion’s life before you
• Minions from Supported Skills have 30% less maximum Life

Cast on Shock

While active, gains Energy when you shock enemies and triggers socketed spells on reaching maximum Energy.

• Gains 1 Energy when you Shock an enemy with a Hit from a Skill.
• Meta Skills gain (3-57)% increased Energy
• Meta Skill gain (0-15)% increased Energy

Sniper’s Mark (Support Gem)

Marks a target. The next Critical Hit the target receives consumes the Mark to deal extra damage and grants you a Frenzy Charge.

• Limit 1 Marked target
• Maximum Mark duration 8 seconds
• Next Critical Hit against Marked enemy has +38% Critical Damage Bonus

Lifetap (Support Gem)

Supports any skill, turning a portion of its Mana cost into a Life cost. Does not support skills that reserve spirit.

• Skill Mana costs converted to life costs.

Impetus (Support Gem)

Support Meta skills. Supported Skills generate Energy significantly faster.

• Supported Skills gain 40% increased energy.

Profusion (Support Gem)

Supports skills that can generate Charges, giving them a chance to generate an additional Charge when they do so.

• Supported Skills have 50% Chance to Grant an Additional Charge

Wind Dancer

While active, periodically grants stages of a buff that gives you more Evasion per stage. Being hit by an enemy while you have this buff consumes all stages of damage and knocks back enemies around you.

• 3 maximum stages
• 10% more evasion rating per stage on being hit by an enemy, consumes all stages to trigger gale force.
• Gain a stage every (1,1-1,5) seconds

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 sill is active

Clarity (Support Gem)

Supports 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

Herald of Thunder

While active, killing Shocked enemies with Attack damage will cause subsequent Attack hits to release lightning bolts, which deal Attack damage to all surrounding enemies.

• Lightning Bolts strike the targets of your next (2-3) attack hits after killing a shocked enemy with attack damage.
• Lightning Bolts strike the targets of your next (0-2) attack hits after killing a shocked enemy with attack damage.

Innervate (Support Gem)

Supports attacks you use yourself. Killing a Shocked enemy with supported skills infuses all of your attacks with Lightning damage for a short time.

• Attacks gain 35% of damage as Lightning Damage for 5 seconds on killing a Shocked enemy with supported skills.

Magnified Effect (Support Gem)

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

• Supported Skills have 30% more area of effect.

Persistence (Support Gem)

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

• Supported Skills have 40% more skill effect duration

Neural Overload (Support Gem)

Supports any skill that hits enemies. Nearby enemies are marked when they are primed for Electrocution, and hitting a marked enemy with a supported skill will electrocute them

• Supported skills Electrocute Primed enemies on hit

Electrocute (Support Gem)

Supports any skill that can deal Damage. Lightning Damage from Supported skills can inflict Electrocute, but supported skills deal less Damage.

• Lightning damage from supported skills contributes to Electrocution Buildup
• Supported skills deal 40% less Damage

Infuse Weapon

Grants your weapon Infusion. Non-Melee Projectile Attacks with that weapon Consume Infusions to infuse the Projectiles fired, causing them to explode at the end of their flight.

• Converts 100% of Physical damage to Cold damage
• Explosion radius is 1.8 metres

Cold Mastery (Support Gem)

Supports Cold skills, granting them an additional level.

• +1 to level of Supported Cold skills

Fire Mastery (Support Gem)

Supports fire skills, granting them an additional level.

• +1 to level of Supported Fire Skills

Lightning Mastery (Support Gem)

Supports Lightning skills, granting them an additional level.

• +1 to level of Supported Lightning Skills

Execute (Support Gem)

Supports any skill that hits enemies, causing it to deal more damage against enemies on Low Life.

• Supported skills deal 50% more damage with hits against enemies that are on low health.

Combat Frenzy

While active, it grants you a Frenzy Charge when you Freeze, Electrocute, or Pin an enemy. This can only occur once every few seconds.

• Gain a Frenzy Charge when you Freeze, Electrocute, or Pin an enemy, no more than once every (4,1-6) seconds.
• Gain an additional charge when you gain a charge

Best Bleed Huntress Stat Priorities

There are certain aspects and new mechanics that you must consider for a Lightning Spear Amazon build in Path of Exile 2.

Regular Stats

• Strength
• Dexterity
• Vitality

Allocating points in Strength allows you to meet the equipment requirements of your chosen weapons and armor. Dexterity increases your survivability by reducing incoming damage. It can also affect attack accuracy and damage. Vitality, on the other hand, maximizes your health pool. Invest in Vitality as long as you can meet the Strength and Dexterity requirements.

Defensive Stats

• Evasion Rating
• Energy Shield
• Block Chance
• Life Pool
• Resistances
• Movement Speed

Evasion Rating is a key defensive mechanic for a Huntress-style build. It helps you avoid incoming attacks. You’ll want to stack this stat to dodge physical attacks. Energy Shield is essential for an additional layer of defense in tough encounters. This becomes increasingly useful with certain gear choices or ascendancies. Invest points in boots with high movement speed. Blocking allows your Amazon to reduce a portion of incoming damage. Investing in Testudo offers a massive boost to shield block chance, enhancing defense. Focus on passive skills and gear that increase maximum life.

Offensive Stats

• Attack Speed
• Critical Strike
• Lightning Damage
• Projectile Damage

Critical Strike Chance is important for scaling your crit chance while using Spear and Buckler. Increasing projectile damage boosts both your attack and the damage dealt by your bleeds. This stat is specifically useful when scaling projectile-based attack skills. Critical strikes significantly boost damage. Allocate points in the passive skill tree to increase critical strike chances. Focus on gear and passive skills that increase Lightning Damage allowing your crit chance while using Spear and Buckler. Increased Bleed Duration can help the enemy bleed for longer. This can lead to more damage over time affecting the enemies. Increasing projectile damage boosts both your attack and the damage dealt by your bleeds. This stat is specifically useful when scaling projectile-based attack skills.

Best Bleed Huntress Passive Skills

Path of Exile 2 offers passive skill nodes that we recommend grabbing when you can because they’re highly effective. The huntress has more substantial early options for passive skills, enhancing 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.

• Blur- It grants +10 Dexterity along with the 20% increased evasion rating and 4% increased movement speed.
• Catlike Agility- Provides a 25% increased evasion rating and a 40% increased evasion rating if you’ve dodge-rolled recently.
• Shedding Skin- Grants a 40% increased elemental ailment threshold and a 10% reduced duration of ailments on you.
• Primal Sundering- Damage penetrates 12% elemental resistances and 10% increased area of effect for attacks.
• Cooked- It provides a 60% increased critical damage bonus and 15% reduced global defenses.
• Freedom of Movement- It gives a 20% increased evasion rating, a 10% reduced movement speed penalty from using skills while moving, and a 10% reduced slowing potency of Debuffs on you.
• Escape Velocity- You gain a 30% increased evasion rating and 3% increased movement speed.
• Catalysis- You get 20% increased elemental damage with attacks and 5% physical damage from hits taken as damage of a random element.
• Maiming Strike- It provides 25% increased attack damage, and attacks have a 25% chance to Maim on hit.
• Dance with Death- 25% more skill speed while off-hand is empty, and you have a one-handed Martial weapon equipped in your Main Hand.

Best Ascendancy for Lightning Spear Build

The Amazon is the best Ascendancy to choose for the Huntress build in Path of Exile 2. It offers a dynamic playstyle with a focus on critical and elemental damage. It is just doubling down on the Huntress, making your spears more valuable using things like power charges and frenzy charges. This is only to get different elemental bonuses, increasing your abilities against rare and unique enemies with opened weaknesses. It allows you to deal 50% more damage and do some interesting things with your life and mana flasks. It also allows you to leech life with both elemental and physical damage. The next one here, the Forgemaster, is very interesting.

You can forge your weapon and increase its viability in the middle of battle. This adds explosions to your weapon with a tempered weapon. You can also craft your chest piece using the ascendancy. Your body armor will essentially be a blank slate where you can add different stats on top of it using your ascendancy. This is a unique thing, and it allows for some interesting customization. This is where you normally wouldn’t be able to get some of these mods or be able to just perfectly change your build on a whim if you get an upgrade somewhere else. However, the Amazon requires proper positioning and charge management as well.

How Skill Tree is Set in POE2

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. In extremely simple terms, we have the intelligence section, which 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 grant minor bonuses, such as a small increase in attack speed, spell damage, melee damage, or attributes.

Second, we’ve got 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 it is not entirely comparable to the other two. For the third one, we have the keystones, which are build-changing and character-defining and 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 upgrade your knowledge of the game.

Best Lightning Spear Amazon Gear

Gear Slot	Gear	Requirement	Effect
Main Hand Weapon	Grand Spear	79 level, 64 str, 165 dex	(75-79)% increased physical damage +(175-200) to accuracy rating (170-179)% increased physical damage Adds (12-19) to (22-32) physical damage to attacks (26-28)% increased attack speed (35-39)% increased critical damage bonus (35-38)% increased critical hit chance
Off-Hand Weapon	Aegis Buckler	65 level, 118 dex	Grants skill: Parry +(100-119) to maximum Life +(152-176) to evasion rating (68-79)% increased evasion rating +(21-25)% to Lightning resistance
Helmet	The Black Insignia	45 level, 83 dex	(70-100)% increased evasion rating (10-20)% increased rarity of items found +(15-25)% to lightning resistance Gain Tailwind on critical hit, no more than once per second Lose all Tailwind when hit
Body Armour	Swiftstalker Coat	65 level, 157 dex	Armour: (30-20) reduced slowing potency of debuffs on you +(57-61) to spirit +(200-214) to maximum Life (45-50)% increased evasion rating +(41-45)% to fire resistance +(41-45)% to cold resistance +(41-45)% to lightning resistance
Gloves	Barbed Bracers	75 level, 122 dex	+(200-214) to maximum Life Adds (16-24) to (25-37) cold damage to attacks +(451-550)to accuracy rating (26-28)% increased attack speed +(41-45)% to cold resistance +(34-36) to dexterity
Boots	Dragonscale Boots	75 level, 131 dex	35% increased movement speed +(200-214) to maximum Life +(177-203) to evasion rating +(41-45)% to fire resistance +(41-45)% to cold resistance +(41-45)% to lightning resistance
Ring 1	Emerald Ring	26 level	+(120-160) to accuracy rating +(200-214) to maximum Life Adds (19-29) to (30-45) fire damage to attacks +(177-203) to evasion rating +(41-45)% to cold resistance +(41-45)% to lightning resistance +(41-45)% to fire resistance
Ring 2	Death Rush	26 level	+(120-160) to accuracy rating +(75-125) to accuracy rating +(75-125) to evasion rating Leech 5% of physical attack damage as Life You gain Onslaught for 4 seconds on kills
Amulet	Jade Amulet	8 level	Allocates Price of Freedom +(10-15) to Dexterity +(57-61) to Spirit +(200-214) to maximum Life +(34-36) to Intelligence +(34-36) to Dexterity +(41-45)% to fire resistance

How to Play Lightning Spear Amazon in Path of Exile 2

The Lightning Spear is your primary skill for the Lightning Spear Amazon build, allowing you to throw a single copy of the spear toward the enemies to deal damage. Invest in nodes that increase lightning and projectile damage. Increase your damage output by improving your attack speed and critical strike chance. Use a buckler to parry the enemy attack and follow up with a counterattack. Use Wild Dancer to enhance your evasion rating and get a knockback effect. This allows you to scale your defense and mobility. Use mobility skills and positioning to maintain distance from enemies. You can dash into melee either with a slash or again using a rake if you want to focus on bleed damage.

Just keep moving, though- Do a slash or two, then dodge back to get some distance, and fire off those explosive spears again. That’s your ranged attack, and then you back into melee range for a few more slashes and simply rinse and repeat from there. You can spam it multiple times to increase your AOE damage. That skill specifically maxes out at three casts, giving you a larger size storm. This way, you can dodge-roll out of the way for it to explode for even more bonus damage. So, you’ve got an explosion from spears and your whirling/ tornado. If anything happens to survive that or if more enemies are rushing in, then they often will be exploded by your Bloodherold skill. However, it has a slightly delayed pop as you start to finish off enemies.

Best Lightning Spear Amazon build in Path of Exile 2 Summary

FAQs about Best Lightning Spear Amazon build in Path of Exile 2 (POE 2)?

How important is gear for my Lightning Spear Amazon build?

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

How do I acquire Lightning Spear Amazon’s new skills?

Yes, you can respec your Lightning Spear Amazon 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 re-spec my Lightning Spear Amazon build if I make a mistake?

The Huntress 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.

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