Charged Tempest Flurry Invoker Build

This is a Charged Tempest Flurry Invoker build for Path of Exile 2 (PoE 2). Check out the Charged Tempest Flurry Invoker starter build, including its gear, skills, and playstyle!

Attention!

This is a build pieced together for Act One to Three of the main campaign and Act 1 Cruel Mode. We'll be updating the build as we progress further in the game.

Charged Tempest Flurry Invoker Build Summary

Charged Tempest Flurry Invoker Starter Build

Early Game

Mid-Game

Build Setup
Thunder Cascade Monk
High Burst Damage and Crowd Control Excellent Mobility Low Defenses

Build Setup
Charged Tempest Flurry Invoker
High DPS Fast Stun Capabilities High Survivability Power Charge Reliant

This is a Monk build that uses Charged Staff , buffing Tempest Flurry to clear mobs and deplete Bosses fast. This build focuses on amplifying Electric damage, and continuously reapplying shock to enemies!

For the early game, we used Falling Thunder with Glacial Cascade to deal with mobs, while Ice Strike with Tempest Bell allowed the build to repeatedly Freeze bosses for a huge DPS opening.

Charged Tempest Flurry Invoker Gear Setup

Equipment and Modifiers

These are the preferred modifiers for the gear setup of the build. For your weapons, it's ideal to obtain a weapon with Lightning, Physical, and Elemental damage increases. For armor and accessories, you'll want to stack on Evasion Rating, Mana, Armor, Maximum Life, and Elemental Resistances for your survivability.

Evasion Rating is the most important modifier in your armor for your survivability, as it synergizes well with the ...and Protect me From Harm node in the Invoker Ascendancy tree as well as the Beastial Skin in the passive tree.

For your charms and runes, be sure to allocate whichever is your weakest resistance to reach the 75% cap.

Charged Tempest Flurry Invoker Skills and Passive Tree

Active Skills

Early Game

Mid-Game

Skill	Support Gems
Ice Strike	Martial Tempo Crescendo
Falling Thunder	Lightning Infusion Perpetual Charge
Glacial Cascade	Cold Infusion Concentrated Effect
Killing Palm	Profusion Life Drain
Wave of Frost	Deep Freeze
Tempest Flurry	Conduction
Tempest Bell	Magnified Effect
Herald of Thunder	-

Skill	Support Gems
Tempest Flurry	Martial Tempo Splinter Inspiration
Storm Wave	Concentrated Effect Rising Tempest
Charged Staff	Conduction Perpetual Charge Primal Armament
Tempest Bell	Magnified Effect Close Combat
Wave of Frost	Deep Freeze Ice Bite
Falling Thunder	Lightning Infusion
Killing Palm	Life Drain
Lingering Illusion	Profusion Persistence
Herald of Thunder	Envenom Corrosion

Main Damaging Skills

Your main damaging skills will be Tempest Flurry buffed by Charged Staff. You can gain Charged Staff by dodging with Lingering Illusion. Use Tempest Bell to further amplify your damage against enemy groups and bosses.

You'll want to put Martial Tempo on your Tempest Flurry to gain a massive buff to its attack speed. For bosses, make sure to slot in Splinter to break their armor and amplify your damage. You can sustain mana by slotting Inspiration on Tempest Flurry, allowing you to toggle the skill without much mana loss.

Against groups of enemies, you'll want to use Herald of Thunder for AoE damage after you kill a shocked enemy.

Gaining Power Charges

You can sustain your Power Charges through the use of Lingering Illusion, which allows you to obtain Power Charges when your Illusion dies.

Slot in Persistence to make your illusions last long enough for enemies to kill them. You can also slot in Profusion to gain more charges when your Illusion dies.

Other Options

You can also use Killing Palm as another way to sustain your Power Charges and recover life by slotting Life Drain as a support skill. Falling Thunder on the other hand is another powerful AoE skill that you can use if Perpetual Charge activates on Charged Staff.

As a ranged option you can use the combo of Wave of Frost along with Storm Wave. Storm Wave uses Rising Tempest, which allows it to increase its damage after using another skill with another element.

Passive Skill Tree

Ascendancy Tree
...and Protect me From Harm
Passive Nodes
1.	Flow State	2.	Style Bender
3.	Power Within	4.	Overflowing Power
5.	Beastial Skin	-	-

Starting Path

For your passives, you'll want to make a beeline to reach the Flow like Water node, which allows you to gain Attack and Cast speed.

Afterward, continue to the second group of nodes where you'll get the Flow State node that allows you to gain Skill Speed and Mana Regeneration, and the Essence of the Storm node that allows you to gain Extra Lightning Damage and an increased percentage to Apply Shock.

Try to obtain the Essence of the Mountain node which grants Extra Cold Damage for a small percentage to apply Freeze on bosses. You can reach this node by using the right attribute highway from the Flow State group nodes.

Afterwards use the attribute highway to reach the node group of Style Bender, Killer Instinct, and Tenfold Attacks for an overall increase in damage. You can also take True Strike and other notables in its group to increase your Critical Chance and Damage.

After Gaining Charged Staff

After gaining Charged Staff, you'll want to take the Power Within and then Overflowing Power to increase the damage of your Charged Staff. On your way to Overflowing Power you can also take Wild Storm for an increase in Lightning Damage.

Finally, work your way down the attribute highway until you reach Beastial Skin. This notable doubles the Evasion Rating you have on your body armor, which synergizes well with the Invoker's ...and Protect me From Harm Ascendancy Node.

Charged Tempest Flurry Invoker Playstyle

Skill Rotation

The playstyle of the Charged Tempest Flurry Invoker revolves around increasing the damage of Tempest Flurry with Charged Staff and Tempest Bell to clear mobs and deplete bosses faster. The rotation is as follows:

1. Bait and dodge attacks to project an Illusion and gain Power Charges.
2. Cast Charged Staff then use Tempest Flurry against mobs.
3. Always use the Tempest Bell against Bosses to apply shock faster.

FAQs

Why Change Ice Strike to Tempest Flurry?

We changed Ice Strike into Tempest Flurry as Charged Staff works better with Tempest Flurry as it stacks the chances to proc Shock.

Why Respecc the Build Into Full Lightning?

During testing, a full Lightning build greatly outscales an Ice and Lightning build, this is because the second Freeze buildup after the first is much slower and is hardly useful in boss fights. Meanwhile, the full lightning build almost always causes shock multiple times in a boss fight, keeping the damage of the build amplified.

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