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PoE 2 0.4 Leveling Builds
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This is a list of leveling builds for all classes in Path of Exile 2 (PoE 2)'s The Last of the Druid's 0.4 update. Check out a list of leveling builds for all classes to carry you throughout Acts 1 to 4!
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All 0.4 Leveling and Start Builds
Fire Bear Druid
 Fire Bear Druid
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 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.
 Furious Slam Shapeshift into a Bear and Slam the ground with great force, causing a pair of shockwaves. Can spend Rage to create larger shockwaves that leave behind Jagged Ground.
 Volcano Uplift a volcano from the earth, damaging enemies standing on it and releasing a spray of molten Projectiles. While the volcano persists, Slamming it will cause another Projectile spray. Channelling this Skill for longer makes the initial eruption more violent, but does not affect subsequent Projectile sprays.
 Fury of the Mountain Shapeshift into a Bear and repeatedly pound the ground, creating Molten Fissures that travel randomly in a wide arc in front of you.
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| Focus: Leveling, Bear, Fire, Slam | |
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Summary: The Fire Bear Druid harnesses the synergy between Forge Hammer and Rampage to inflict massive AoE Fire Damage. This build is capable of melting enemies while maintaining strong survivability throughout the leveling process. |
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Frost Wolf Druid
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 Frost Bomb Creates a pulsing Orb of Frost. Each pulse inflicts Cold Exposure on nearby Enemies. When the Orb's duration ends, it explodes, dealing Cold damage to surrounding Enemies.
 Herald of Ice While active, Shattering an enemy with an Attack Hit will cause an icy explosion that deals Attack damage to surrounding enemies.
 Overwhelming Presence While active, enemies in your Presence are easier to Stun and inflict Elemental Ailments upon.
 Lunar Assault Shapeshift into a Werewolf and swipe with your claws, projecting an arc of moonlight and ice forward in a crescent.
 Lunar Blessing Shapeshift into a Werewolf and offer your Rage to the moon to receive a blessing, gaining bonus Cold damage, Attack speed and movement speed for yourself and any Wolf Minions you have from Wolf Pack or Predator's Mark. Spends all Rage to extend the Buff's duration. While the Buff is active, your WerewolfAttacks call down Moonbeams on Hit.
 Cross Slash Shapeshift into a Werewolf and leap backwards as you gouge the ground with both claws. Hitting a Marked enemy with both gouges will Activate the Mark and cause an additional shockwave. Ice Fragments will be pulled into the location where the gouges cross and explode immediately. This skill can be used while using other skills to interrupt them.
 Thunderstorm Conjure a thunderstorm which causes lightning strikes and torrential rain in an area. Enemies in the area are Drenched, causing them to become Shocked or Frozen more easily. Plants in the area become Overgrown.
 Pounce Shapeshift into a Werewolf and leap to a target location, damaging enemies in an area around where you land. Predator's Mark will be Triggered targetting the highest Rarity enemie Hit, or if a Mark gem is socketed into this Skill, that Mark will be Triggered instead. Using this skill allows any Wolf Minions you have to leap immediately.
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| Focus: Leveling, Wolf, Cold, Crowd Control | |
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Summary: The Frost Wolf Druid build makes use of Lunar Assault to easily freeze enemies and dealing AoE Cold damage while inflicting high single-target damage with your Shred combos. |
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Lightning Wyvern Druid
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 Herald of Thunder While active, killing Shocked enemies with Attack damage, will cause subsequent Attack hits to release lightning bolts which deals Attack damage to all surrounding enemies.
 Lingering Illusion Creates a short-lived illusory copy of yourself whenever you dodge roll. The copy can be damaged by enemies, and copies that are destroyed by an enemy will grant you a Power Charge.
 Elemental Weakness Curse all targets in an area after a short delay, lowering their Elemental Resistances.
 Oil Barrage Shapeshift into a Wyvern and spit Oil at enemies, creating Oil Ground where the Projectiles land. Consumes Power Charges if possible to instead Channel a sustained barrage of electrified Oil that does not create Oil Ground. Projectiles are fired in sequence, allowing multiple Projectiles to Hit the same target.
Thunderstorm Conjure a thunderstorm which causes lightning strikes and torrential rain in an area. Enemies in the area are Drenched, causing them to become Shocked or Frozen more easily. Plants in the area become Overgrown.
 Barkskin While active, taking Hit damage from enemies to your Energy Shield causes you to gain Armour for a short duration. Armour gained from multiple Hits can stack. The total Armour gained from this Skill cannot exceed the Item Armour on your Equipped Armour Items.
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| Focus: Leveling, Dragon, Lightning, Shock | |
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Summary: This Druid build focuses on using the Dragon Form's emphasis on Power Charges for Lightning damage alongside the support of Druid spells for mobbing. |
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All 0.3 Leveling and Starter Builds
Lightning Ranger
 Lightning Ranger
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Herald of Thunder While active, killing Shocked enemies with Attack damage, will cause subsequent Attack hits to release lightning bolts which deals Attack damage to all surrounding enemies.
 Barrage Ready a volley of arrows or spears, Empowering your next Bow or Projectile Spear Attack to repeat multiple times. Consumes your Frenzy Charges on use to add additional repeats.
 Lightning Arrow Fires a charged arrow at the target. On hitting an enemy or wall, the arrow will fire Chaining Lightning beams at nearby enemies.
 Lightning Rod Fire an arrow that drops from above, creating a Lightning burst. The arrow remains in the ground, and any Chaining Lightning beams can Chain to it. When Chained to, the arrows release another Lightning burst.
 Stormcaller Arrow Fires an arrow that embeds where it lands for a short duration. At the end of the duration, a Lightning bolt strikes the arrow, disintegrating it and damaging enemies with a high chance to Shock.
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| Focus: Leveling, Burst Damage, Lightning, Fast Clear | |
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Summary: This Ranger leveling build is designed around Lightning Arrow's and Lightning Rod's ability to burst along with Stormcaller Arrow's consistent AoE damage. |
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Drain Contagion Witch
 Drain Contagion Witch
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Frost Bomb Creates a pulsing Orb of Frost. Each pulse inflicts Cold Exposure on nearby Enemies. When the Orb's duration ends, it explodes, dealing Cold damage to surrounding Enemies.
 Contagion Afflicts a single enemy with a Debuff that deals Chaos Damage over time. If the enemy dies while affected by contagion, it and all other Chaos Damage over time Debuffs spread to other enemies and refresh their durations. Reanimating or detonating a corpse affected by contagion will cause the Minion or explosion to spread Contagion on hit.
 Chaos Bolt Fires a burst of chaos energy at the target.
 Skeletal Warrior Summons reviving Skeletal Warriors.
 Unearth Raises spikes of bone from the earth in front of you. The bones of Corpses in the area are ripped out and reassembled into short-lived Bone Construct Minions that fight for you.
 Essence Drain Fires a Projectile that applies a powerful Chaos damage over time debuff to enemy hits.
 Despair Curses all targets in an area after a short delay, lowering their Chaos Resistance.
 Dark Effigy Raises a Totem that bombards enemies afflicted by Chaos damage over time Debuffs.
 Blasphemy Turns socketed Curse skills into vile Auras, applying their effects to all nearby enemies.
 Withering Presence While active, periodically Withers enemies in your Presence.
 Ravenous Swarm While active and enemies are present, swarms of insects emerge from your body to pursue nearby enemies. The Swarms are untargetable Minions that Attack and Poison enemies.
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| Focus: Leveling, AoE, Chaos, DoT | |
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Summary: This Witch leveling build focuses on dealing Chaos damage with Essence Drain and Contagion, which allows you to deal high damage over time while having minions tank for you. |
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Lightning Spear Huntress
 Lightning Spear Huntress
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Herald of Thunder While active, killing Shocked enemies with Attack damage, will cause subsequent Attack hits to release lightning bolts which deals Attack damage to all surrounding enemies.
Barrage Ready a volley of arrows or spears, Empowering your next Bow or Projectile Spear Attack to repeat multiple times. Consumes your Frenzy Charges on use to add additional repeats.
 Disengage Jump back as you rupture the earth in front of you with spearpoints, 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.
 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.
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| Focus: Leveling, Burst Damage, Mobbing, AoE | |
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Summary: This Huntress leveling build is focused on an elemental setup using the Lightning Spear. Lightning Spear will be our main DPS tool due to its high single-target damage and forking projectile ability that can clear mob groups with ease. Barrage lets us start fights with a bigger burst, and disengage lets us get a melee trigger for our passive tree bonuses and a spacing tool to kite enemies. |
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Lightning Mercenary
 Lightning Mercenary
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Herald of Thunder While active, killing Shocked enemies with Attack damage, will cause subsequent Attack hits to release lightning bolts which deals Attack damage to all surrounding enemies.
 Wind Dancer Grants a buff that gives you more Evasion per stage. Being Hit by a Melee Attack while you have this buff consumes all stages to damage and Knock Back enemies around you.
 Voltaic Grenade Fires a bouncing Grenade that discharges an Electrocuting Lightning blasts when its fuse expires
 Emergency Reload Instantly relaods your active Crossbow Ammunition and Empowers the loaded bolts to deal more damage.
 Shockburst Rounds Loads your Crossbow with a clip of charged bolts which releases damaging pulses upon hitting an enemy affected by a lightning ailment. Using this skill again reloads the clip.
 Galvanic Shards Loads your Crossbow with a clip of charged bolts that fragment in flight, releasing Chaining Lightning beams when they Hit enemies. Using this skill again reloads the clip.
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| Focus: Leveling, AoE, Fast Clear, Lightning | |
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Summary: This Lightning Mercenary leveling build makes use of spamming Galvanic Shards to easily clear mobs and Shockburst Rounds against bosses with the help of Herald of Thunder. |
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Rolling Shatter Warrior
Cold Lightning Monk
 Cold Lightning Monk
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 Killing Palm Dash to an enemy and Strike them with an unarmed Attack, Culling enemies if their life is low enough. Each enemy killed by this strike grants a Power Charge. Enemies around you that can be Culled will be highlighted. This skill always Strikes with your bare fist, even if you have a Quarterstaff equipped.
 Falling Thunder Infuses your Quarter staff with electrical energies, then slams the ground to deal damage in a large cone in front of you. Consumes your Power Charges to fire Lightning Projectiles forwards from the impact.
 Glacial Cascade Sweep your Quarterstaff upwards, releasing an icy fissure which deals damage in a series of bursts culminating in a large spike. Frozen enemies hit by the final spike are dealt heavy damage but the Freeze is Consumed. Ice Crystals hit by the final spike explode.
 Ice Strike Perform a fast icy Strike, Using this Attack three times in quick succession causes a final strike that is slower and more powerful.
 Tempest Bell Build Combo by successfully Striking Enemies with other skills. After reaching maximum Combo, use this skill to cause the Bell on your staff to grow to massive size as you drop it on the ground. The Bell damages enemies on impact and can be Hit by your skills, creating a damaging shockwave. Elemental Ailments applied to the Bell cause its shockwaves to deal extra damage of the corresponding type, and Hits which would have caused Knockback increase the area of effect of the shockwaves.
 Staggering Palm Dash to an enemy and Strike them with an Unarmed Strike, Heavy Stunning an enemy with this Skill grants you a Buff, that causes your Quarterstaff and Unarmed attacks to also fire Projectiles for a short duration. Enemies which are Primed for Stun will instantly be Heavily Stunned. This skill always Strikes with your bare fist, even if you have a Quarterstaff equipped.
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| Focus: Leveling, AoE, Burst Damage, Lightning, Cold | |
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Summary: The Cold Lightning Monk build is an unarmed build uses Ice Strike and Glacial Cascade to deal damage to enemies and freeze them in place. It also makes use of Killing Palm and Falling Thunder for burst damage. |
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Fireball Sorceress
 Fireball Sorceress
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 Flame Wall Creates a wall of fire in front of the character, which ignites everything within its area. Any projectiles fired through the wall by you and allies deal added fire damage and inflict ignite on hit.
 Snap Shatters the frost on a Frozen enemy, Consuming the freese to deal a large amount of Cold Damage to enemies caught in the blast. Can also be cast on a Frostbolt to cause it to explode immediately. Any Frozen enemies hit by the Frostbolt's explosion will be dealt Cold Snap's damage and have their freeze consumed.
 Fireball Launches a large ball of Fire which explodes on impact, creating a nova of smaller firebolts.
 Raging Spirits While active, your Fire Spells will also summon Raging Spirits, which are short-lived flaming skulls that rush at nearby enemies and rapidly Attack them. Enemies will not directly engage these Minions, and can pass through them.
 Living Bomb Plant a seed of Fire inside an enemy. Dealing enough damage to the enemy, or killing it outright, causes the seed to explode, dealing damage in an area and leaving behind a Fire Infusion Remnant.
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| Focus: Leveling, AoE, Mobbing | |
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Summary: This Sorceress setup focuses on a loop sequence of clearing mobs with infused spells to gain infusions for the next mob clear spell. Use Living Bomb and Snap to secure infusions to unleash a barrage of fireballs. |
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Standard League Leveling Builds
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What are Leveling Builds?
Temporary Builds Designed to Quickly Progress
Leveling Builds are temporary and low investment builds that progress from Act 1, 2, and 3 quickly and reach the Endgame as soon as possible. Due to their low investment with Passives and Ascendancy, they are designed to easily pivot into different Endgame builds of your choosing!
Path of Exile 2 (PoE 2) Related Guides
0.4 Endgame Builds
 Frost Wolf Oracle |
 Tanky Bear Shaman |
 Navira's Fracturing Disciple of Varashta |
0.4 Leveling Builds
| Fire Bear Druid |
Frost Wolf Druid |
Lightning Wyvern Druid |
| Cold Infusion Sorceress |
Grenadier Mercenary |
Buckler Parry Huntress |
| Drain Contagion Witch |
Falling Thunder Monk |
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0.3 Best Builds
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Lightning Arrow Deadeye
Dark Effigy Lich
Demon Warp Infernalist
Hollow Palm Invoker
Armour Stacking Titan
Blackflame Blood Mage
Shieldmaster Smith of Kitava
Ballista Banner Tactician
Powerwasher Acolyte of Chayula
Galvanic Shards Gemling
Full Bleed Ritualist
Explosive Witchhunter
Fissure Totem Warbringer
Airbender Amazon
Stormweaver Elementalist
Poison Pathfinder
Cold Chronomancer0.3 Leveling Builds
 Slam Fissure Warrior |
Lightning Arrow Ranger |
Lightning Shotgun Mercenary |
| Cold Lightning Monk |
Lightning Spear Huntress |
Fireball Sorceress |
All Build Guides
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