PoE 2 0.4 Witch Build - Wolf Minion Lich
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This is a Wolf Minion Lich Witch endgame build for Path of Exile 2 (PoE 2)'s The Last of the Druids Update. Check out the Wolf Minion Lich Witch endgame build, including its gear, socketables, skills, and playstyle!
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Wolf Minion Lich Build Summary
Cantrip's Wolf Minion Build
This unique Wolf Minion Lich build has been crafted by Cantrip. This build utilizes the newly-introduced wolf skill gems that came out in patch 0.4, The Last of the Druids update.
For more unique builds, check out Cantrip's YouTube channel for more content, and you can join his Discord channel to interact with his community.
Wolf Minion Lich Build
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 Wolf Minion Lich |
 Berserk While active, strengthens your Rage and grants you Life Leech based on your Rage, but causes you to lose Life while Raging.
 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.
 Ferocious Roar Shapeshift into a Bear and roar in defiance, immediately gaining Rage if there are enemies nearby and Empowering subsequent Attacks to Break Armour. Alternatively, socketing a human-form Warcry into this Skill triggers that Warcry instead, and augments its damage and area. This Skill's cooldown can be bypassed by expending an Endurance Charge.
 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.
 Wolf Pack Activate to summon a pack of Wolf Companions. The pack treated as a single Companion for effects that count or limit Companions, regardless XIV of the number of Wolves in the pack.
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 High Survivability due to Minions Does Not Rely Solely on Minions Decent Mapping Speed Minions Occasionally Obstruct Targets |
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This Wolf Minion Lich build utilizes the new Wolf Pack skill gem in order to summon wolves, while also joining the fray using Wolf and Bear forms instead of staying in the backline, leading to an even more active gameplay experience.
Furthermore, this build is highly usable at the beginning, making it an effective league starter that scales into the endgame.
| Date | Changes |
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| 01-15-2026 | Created Wolf Minion Lich build for endgame. |
Wolf Minion Lich Equipment
| Gear | Modifiers | |
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 Fury Talisman Fury Talisman Stats:
Damage - 49-91 Critical Chance - 8% Attacks Per Second - 1.25 Requirements: Level - 59 Strength - 67 Intelligence - 48 Implicit Skill: +8-12 Maximum Rage (Weapon) |
・+ To Level of All Melee Skills
・+ Critical Hit Chance ・% Increased Hit Chance ・+ To Accuracy Rating ・Minons Deal % Increased Damage ・+ To Maximum Rage Desecrated: ・ Minions Deal % Increased Damage if you've hit recently |
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 Rattling Sceptre Rattling Sceptre Stats:
Spirit - 100 Requirements: None (Offhand) |
・+ To Level of All Minion Skills
・Allies in Your Presence Have % Increased Attack Speed ・Allies in Your Presence Deal Added Attack Cold Damage ・Increased Light Radius ・+ To Maximum Mana Desecrated: ・ Minions Deal % Increased Damage if you've hit recently | |
 Sorcerous Tiara Sorcerous Tiara Stats:
Energy Shield - 92 Requirements: Level - 70 Intelligence - 99 (Helm) |
・+ To Level of All Minion Skills
・% Increased Energy Shield ・+ To Maximum Life ・Any Elemental Resistance Desecrated: ・+ To Maximum Energy Shield |
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 Sacramental Robe Sacramental Robe Stats:
Energy Shield - 153 Requirements: Level - 75 Intelligence - 121 Implicit : 40-50% faster start of Energy Shield Recharge (Body Armor) |
・+ To Spirit
・Increased Armor, Evasion and Energy Shield ・+ To Maximum Energy Shield ・% Increased Energy Shield ・Reduced Attribute Requirements ・Any Elemental Resistance Fractured Modifier: ・+ To Spirit |
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 Grim Gloves Grim Gloves Stats:
Energy Shield - 42 Requirements: Level - 65 Intelligence - 80 (Gloves) |
・+ Level to All Melee Skills
・Increased Armor, Evasion and Energy Shield ・Faster Start of Energy Shield Recharge ・+ To Maximum Energy Shield ・% Increased Energy Shield ・Any Elemental Resistance Desecrated: ・+ To Maximum Energy Shield |
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 Elegant Slippers Elegant Slippers Stats:
Energy Shield - 55 Requirements: Level - 55 Intelligence - 72 (Boots) |
・Increased Movement Speed
・+ To Maximum Energy Shield ・% Increased Energy Shield ・Any Elemental Resistance |
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 Lunar Amulet Lunar Amulet Requirements:
Level - 14 Implicit:+20-30 to maximum Energy Shield (Amulet) |
・Allocates: Warlord Berserker
・+ Level to All Minion Skills ・+ Maximum Energy Shield ・% Increased Maximum Energy Shield Desecrated: ・ Minions Deal % Increased Damage if you've hit recently |
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 Topaz Ring Topaz Ring Requirements:
Level - 16 Implicit:+20-30% to Lightning Resistance (Ring 1) |
・Lightning Resistance
・Adds Physical Damage to Attacks ・+ To All Elemental Resistances ・Any Elemental Resistance Desecrated: ・ Minions Deal % Increased Damage if you've hit recently |
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Topaz Ring Topaz Ring Requirements:
Level - 16 Implicit:+20-30% to Lightning Resistance (Ring 2) |
・Lightning Resistance
・Adds Cold Damage to Attacks ・Adds Lightning Damage to Attacks ・+ To All Elemental Resistances ・+ To Any Elemental Resistance ・Increased Mana Regeneration Desecrated: ・ Minions Deal % Increased Damage if you've hit recently |
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 Ultimate Life Flask Ultimate Life Flask Stats:
Flask Type - Life Recovered Life - 920 Charge Per Use - 10 Total Charges - 75 Duration - 3 sec. (Life Flask) |
・Gains Charges per Second
・% of Recovery Applied Instantly |
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 Ultimate Mana Flask Ultimate Mana Flask Stats:
Flask Type - Mana Recovered Mana - 310 Charge Per Use - 10 Total Charges - 75 Duration - 3 sec. (Mana Flask) |
・Gain Charges per Second
・Increased Mana Recovered |
Weapons
A Talisman will be used in combination with a Sceptre because it has modifiers that benefit melee skills and minions. These are both used extensively as the build's main way of dealing damage.
Try to get as many levels as possible for both your melee skills and your minions, as this will greatly increase your damage output.
Armor and Accessories
For our armor and accessories, we will prioritize getting as much energy shield as possible for survivability since we will be fighting at close range with our Wolf minions.
Our ring options are flexible and can be replaced with other elemental rings to reach the elemental resist cap. Make sure to get additional attack modifiers, as they significantly increase our DPS.
| List of Armors | List of Accessories |
Runes and Soul Cores
| Equipment | Sockets |
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| Weapon | |
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Greater Rune of Leadership
Snake Idol
Greater Iron Rune
Soul Core of TacatiWe will socket the Greater Rune of Leadership into our Talisman and the Snake Idol Rune into our Scepter. These runes increase the levels of melee and minion skills, respectively, allowing our damage output to scale better in the endgame.
We will only socket runes for defensive purposes on our armor. For this reason, we will use either Greater Iron Runes to increase our energy shield or elemental runes to reach the resistance cap.
| List of Runes | List of Soul Cores |
Belts and Charms
| Belt Modifiers | |||||
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 Linen Belt Linen Belt Requirements:
None Implicit:20-30% increased Mana Recovery from Flasks |
・Any Elemental Resistance
・Maximum Life ・Armor |
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| Charm Options | |||||
 Amethyst Charm
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 Dousing Charm
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 Stone Charm
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We will use our belt to improve our resistances and survivability. To that end, we will use an Amethyst Charm for increased chaos resistance and a Dousing Charm for ignite immunity.
The third charm slot allows for flexibility, so you can choose a Stone Charm, a Silver Charm or any other Charm that you pick up, depending on which suits your needs best.
| List of Belts | List of Charms |
Wolf Minion Lich Skills
All Active and Persistent Skills
| Skill | Support Gems |
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Pounce 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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 Feeding Frenzy II Feeding Frenzy II Supports skills which create Minions, making them deal and take more damage. Cannot support skills which create undamageable Minions.
 Uul-Netol's Embrace Uul-Netol's Embrace Supports Skills that can cause Damaging Hits, granting extra Chaos damage and causing Chaos damage to Break Armour.
 Dialla's Desire Dialla's Desire Supports any Skill which has levels, increasing the level and Quality, while reducing the cost and Reservation.
 Rakiata's Flow Rakiata's Flow Supports Skills that can cause Damaging Hits, causing those Hits to treat Enemy Elemental Resistances as inverted.
 Rapid Attacks II Rapid Attacks II Supports Attacks, causing them to Attack faster.
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Shred Shred |
 Living Lightning II Living Lightning II Supports Skills which cause Damaging Hits. Living Lightning Minions are created when dealing Lightning damage with Supported Skills - bundles of living electricity that target nearby enemies with Chaining Attacks. Enemies will not directly engage these Minions, and can pass through them. Does not modify skills used by Minions.
 Shock Shock Supports any skill that hits enemies, making it more likely to Shock.
 Muster Muster Supports Skills which summon Minions. Supported Minions deal more Damage the more different kinds of Persistent Minions you have summoned.
 Esh's Radiance Esh's Radiance Supports Skills that can cause Damaging Hits, granting extra Chaos damage and causing Chaos damage to Contribute to Shock.
 Cold Exposure Cold Exposure Supports any skill that hits enemies, causing it to deal less damage but inflict Cold Exposure when it Critically Hits an enemy.
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Lunar Blessing 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.
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 Prolonged Duration II Prolonged Duration II Supports any skill that has a duration, making that duration longer.
 Cooldown Recovery II Cooldown Recovery II Supports skills with Cooldowns, increasing the rate at which those Cooldowns Recover. Cannot modify the skills of minions.
 Cold Mastery Cold Mastery Supports Cold skills, granting then an additional level.
 Culling Strike II Culling Strike II Supports Attack skills, causing them to Cull Rare and Unique enemies on hit, and increasing the threshhold at which they will Cull Enemies.
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Ferocious Roar Ferocious Roar Shapeshift into a Bear and roar in defiance, immediately gaining Rage if there are enemies nearby and Empowering subsequent Attacks to Break Armour. Alternatively, socketing a human-form Warcry into this Skill triggers that Warcry instead, and augments its damage and area. This Skill's cooldown can be bypassed by expending an Endurance Charge.
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 Echoing Cry Echoing Cry Supports Warcries. Supported Skills echo, causing their effects to happen again after a short delay, growing larger each time, but are less effective and require you to have travelled a certain distance before use.
 Raging Cry Raging Cry Supports Warcry skills, causing them to grant you Rage on use depending on counted monster Power.
 Enraged Warcry II Enraged Warcry II Supports Warcries, causing them to expend Rage to bypass their usual Cooldown.
 Exposing Cry Exposing Cry Supports Warcries. Supported Skills apply Exposure on Hitting enemies.
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Cross Slash 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.
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 Rage III Rage III Supports Melee Attacks, causing them to grant Rage on Hit. Supported Skills have signficantly higher Attack speed while you are not at maximum Rage.
 Magnified Area II Magnified Area II Supports any skill with an area of effect, making it larger at the cost of damage.
 Efficiency II Efficiency II Supports any skill, making it cost less to use. Cannot support skills which reserve Spirit.
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Wolf Pack Wolf Pack Activate to summon a pack of Wolf Companions. The pack treated as a single Companion for effects that count or limit Companions, regardless XIV of the number of Wolves in the pack.
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Rapid Attacks II Rapid Attacks II Supports Attacks, causing them to Attack faster.
Feeding Frenzy II Feeding Frenzy II Supports skills which create Minions, making them deal and take more damage. Cannot support skills which create undamageable Minions.
Muster Muster Supports Skills which summon Minions. Supported Minions deal more Damage the more different kinds of Persistent Minions you have summoned.
 Minion Mastery Minion Mastery Supports Minion skills, granting them an additional level.
 Loyalty Loyalty 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.
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 Skeletal Warrior Skeletal Warrior Summons reviving Skeletal Warriors.
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 Meat Shield II Meat Shield II Supports skills which create Minions, granting them less damage taken but making them deal less damage.
 Elemental Army Elemental Army Supports skills which create Minions, bolstering the Elemental Resistance of those Minions.
 Last Gasp Last Gasp Support skills that create Persistent Minions, causing those Minions to fight on for a short duration before dying when they are fatally wounded.
Minion Mastery Minion Mastery Supports Minion skills, granting them an additional level.
 Armour Break I Armour Break I Supports Skills that Hit Enemies, causing those Hits to Break Armour based on a portion of Physical Damage dealt.
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Berserk Berserk While active, strengthens your Rage and grants you Life Leech based on your Rage, but causes you to lose Life while Raging.
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Since we will be relying heavily on our minions for damage, we will take Rapid Attacks II and Feeding Frenzy wherever applicable to increase our overall DPS.
Our character as well as our wolves will be doing most of the heavy lifting in terms of damage, so we will take support gems that support Ferocious Roar, as our minions will also be benefitting from Rage thanks to Warlord Berserker.
Lastly, our Skeletal Minions will serve as utility. To that end, they are socketed with Meat Shield and Elemental Army to increase their survivability, as well as Armor Break to improve the damage of Shred and the minions summoned by Wolf Pack.
Wolf Minion Lich Passive Tree
Passive Tree Progression
| Ascendency Passive Nodes | |||
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 Necromantic Conduit, Crystalline Phylactery and Eternal Life |
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| Screenshot and Footage taken from Path of Building |
※ Legend: Red = Weapon Set I | Green = Weapon Set II
With our minions doing a sizeable chunk of our damage, we will be investing in nodes to boost their damage, as well as their survivability. And so, we will be taking nodes such as Gigantic Following, Relentless Fallen and Necrotised Flesh.
An important keystone passive to note is the Lord of the Wilds. It allows us to use a Sceptre and a Talisman at the same time, which is otherwise impossible. Both items have beneficial stats that this build capitalizes on, so make sure not to miss it.
Passive Skill Tree Guide and List of Passives
Jewels
Note: The modifiers listed are arranged according to priority.
 Heroic Tragedy Timeless Jewel
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・ Remembrancing 2023 Songworthy Deeds by the Line of Vorana
・Passives in Radius Are Conquered by the Kalguur Historic |
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 Sapphire
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・Minions Have Increased Attack and Cast Speed
・Minions Deal Increased Damage ・Minions have + To All Elemental Resistances |
Because we're allocating so much strength to use our skill gems, we'll use a Heroic Tragedy Timeless Jewel to convert the strength bonus from life to energy shield. This fits the build much better, as we rely on energy shield rather than life for our defenses.
We will socket sapphires into the Crystalline Phylactery socket and the rest of our passive tree sockets. This will strengthen our minions and increase their survivability, thanks to the minion modifiers availabe.
Wolf Minion Lich Playstyle and Skill Rotation
Mobbing and Bossing Rotation
The build follows a simple rotation, which are both used for both mobs and bosses. The rotation is as follows:
- Cast Ferocious Roar in order to gain Rage.
- Use Lunar Blessing to buff your minions.
- Use Shred on enemy target.
- Cast Pounce in order to deal more damage to a specific target.
- Cast Cross Slash and recast Pounce to re-summon lost wolves.
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