Fiery Explosion Warrior Build

This is a Fiery Explosion Warrior build for Path of Exile 2 (PoE 2). Check out the Fiery Explosion Warrior build, including its gear, socketables, skills, and playstyle!

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This is a build pieced together for Mid-Game. We'll be updating the build as we progress further in the game.

Fiery Explosion Warrior Build Summary

Fiery Explosion Warrior Build

Early Game

Mid-Game

Build Setup
Fiery Explosion Warrior
High Crowd Clearing Ability High AoE and Single-Target Damage Reliant on Stuns

Build Setup
Fiery Explosion Warrior
High Crowd Clearing Ability High AoE and Single-Target Damage Lethal Fire DoT Weak Against Fire and Stun Resistant Enemies Slower Attack Speed

The Fiery Explosion Warrior build aims to make the Warrior an impressive AoE and DoT damage dealer from Act One to Three and their Cruel equivalent. The build is capable of clearing clusters of enemies quickly by setting off explosions and shockwaves that burn and incinerate enemies caught within them.

This Warrior build starts with capitalizing on Boneshatter's shockwaves. Later on, the build will improve the capabilities and effects of Boneshatter by becoming a Warbringer and integrating fire damage, warcry buffs, and more explosion triggers, allowing the Warrior to cause fiery chain explosions capable of lighting up enemies.

Fiery Explosion Warrior Gear and Sockets

Equipment and Modifiers

Charms and Runes

By default, the build uses either a Grounding Charm or Sapphire Charm. However, players can equip charms for elemental or debuff resistance when needed. For example, if they are having difficulty defeating an enemy that deals lightning damage, they can equip a Topaz charm.

For Runes, socket Dessert and Stone Runes on weapons while in the early game. Once the Warrior has more fire damage and stun buildup from the passive skill tree, replace these runes with Rebirth and Inspiration Runes. For armor pieces, equip elemental resistance runes as necessary and an Iron Rune to increase armor.

Fiery Explosion Warrior Skills and Passive Tree

Active Skills

Early Game

Mid-Game

Skill	Support Gems
Rolling Slam	Fist of War Jagged Ground
Boneshatter	Impact Shockwave
Molten Blast	Overpower Ignition
Infernal Cry	Premeditation Magnified Effect
Perfect Strike	Window of Opportunity Eternal Flame
Herald of Ash	-

Skill	Support Gems
Rolling Slam	Fist of War Overpower
Boneshatter	Magnified Effect Close Combat Inspiration
Molten Blast	Wildfire Ignition Fiery Death
Infernal Cry	Premeditation
Perfect Strike	Window of Opportunity Eternal Flame
Leap Slam	Fire Infusion
Overwhelming Presence	Vitality
Herald of Ash	-

Boneshatter to Detonate Enemies

The core skill in this build is Boneshatter. It is the skill responsible for detonating stun-primed enemies, so the attached support gems help increase the shockwaves' radius to cause a bigger chain of explosions, achieve overkill damage, and make the skill more mana-friendly.

Mace Strike (Auto), Molten Blast, Rolling Slam, and Leap Slam for Stun Priming

Mace Strike (Auto), Molten Blast, Rolling Slam, and Leap Slam are used to prime enemies for stuns, allowing Boneshatter to trigger its shockwave effect. Most of their attached support gems focus on allowing them to stun prime enemies quicker and ignite them more consistently for more damage multipliers before enemy detonation.

Infernal Cry and Herald of Ash for More Explosions and Overkill

Infernal Cry and Herald of Ash provide more sources of explosions and fire damage, with the former also capable of empowering hits to help achieve overkill damage to trigger the latter. Support gems for the former help increase its damage boost given and lessen its mana cost to trigger it more often.

Perfect Strike for Single-Target Enemies

Perfect Strike is used for high-burst damage and lethal DoT damage on high-health, single-target enemies like bosses. Its support gems help further increase its on-hit damage and make ignites last longer.

Overwhelming Presence for Easier Stuns and Ignites

Finally, Overwhelming Presence makes stun-priming and igniting enemies easier**, increasing overall damage and making the build's skill rotation more consistent and easier to execute.

Passive Skill Tree

Ascendancy Tree
Warcaller's Bellow and Greatwolf's Howl
Passive Nodes
1.	Brutal	2.	Smash and Reverberating Impact
3.	Singular Purpose and Shockwaves	4.	Burning Strikes
5.	Devastation	6.	Crushing Verdict and Lasting Trauma
7.	Burn Away	8.	Resolute Technique
9.	Beef	10.	Fulmination
11.	Impact Force and Impact Area	12.	-

Passive Skill Tree Pathing

This skill tree path focuses on increasing the potency of the Warrior's stuns, ignition capabilities, and overall melee, fire, and AoE damage. The passive skills Reverberating Impact, Devastation, Shockwaves, Impact Force, and Impact Area increase the AoE of Boneshatter's shockwave, making it possible to eliminate enemies in a bigger radius upon the latter skill's activation.

Meanwhile, Smash, Brutal, Singular Purpose, and Crushing Verdict make stun priming enemies faster and more consistent, allowing players to initiate the skill rotation below easily. Then, for DoT scaling, Lasting Trauma, Burning Strikes, Burn Away, and Fulmination are used to increase the effectiveness of Fire Damage and Ignition.

For survivability, especially in Act Three and onwards, it is crucial to get Resolute Technique, making attacks never miss. Enemies will be more elusive to attacks, and missing attacks make the build vulnerable to taking damage, leading to constant deaths.

Then, for the ascendancy group node, Warcaller's Bellow and Greatwolf's Howl give Infernal Cry more usage and synergy with the explosive nature of the build. For attribute node allocation, two are allocated to Dexterity and Intelligence each, while the rest goes to Strength. The build also takes Beef for an additional strength boost.

Fiery Explosion Warrior Playstyle

Default Skill Rotation

The Playstyle of this build revolves around priming enemies for stuns, then triggering Boneshatter, Infernal Cry, and Herald of Ash's effects to trigger chain explosions. The skill rotation is as follows:

1. Group enemies together by training them. Once grouped, use Molten Blast to prime multiple enemies for stuns. Players may also use either Leap Slam, Mace Strike, or Rolling Slam's first slam when necessary. Note that it is better to prime enemies with lower total HP to ensure overkill damage.
2. Use Infernal Cry to power up the Warrior's next attacks. While players can use Boneshatter without it, doing so lessens the effects of enemy detonation.
3. Finally, hit the primed enemies, preferably the ones with low total HP, with Boneshatter. If done right, the initial shockwave and explosion will continuously trigger the Herald of Ash's effect, resulting in chain explosions that will wipe out groups of enemies. Additionally, enemies left will most likely die from being ignited.
4. If there are enemies left, use Infernal Cry again to make nearby corpses explode, then repeat the rotation.

Skill Rotation for Bosses

Since the build is mainly built towards clearing groups of enemies, it also incorporates the Perfect Strike active skill to help deal with high-health, single-target enemies like bosses. The skill rotation for bosses is as follows:

1. Use either Leaping Slam or Rolling Slam's first slam to prime the enemy.
2. Once the enemy is primed, use Boneshatter to heavy stun them.
3. Use Infernal Cry to power up the Warrior's next attack.
4. Finally, hit the boss with one or two perfectly timed Perfect Strikes to deliver maximum damage to the enemy and inflict high-magnitude ignitions that deal lethal DoT on them.

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