Blog Tag: Poe 2 Early Witch Builds

It has been more than a month since the early access to POE 2 was launched, have you found your favorite or most suitable one among the 6 playable classes? If your answer is Witch, then this guide will be worth reading carefully.

When you play as a Witch in Path of Exile 2, the use of builds is very important, because if you can cooperate with powerful builds properly, you can effectively fight the high-level bosses you will encounter and get more POE 2 Currency from them.

In fact, the creation and use of builds are inseparable from skills, and all the skills you can use in POE 2 are provided by skill gems. So in order to let you get good builds as a Witch in the early stage of the game, we will recommend 6 early skill gems worth equipping for you.

1. Unearth

• Increases 15% critical chance
• Raises bone spikes from the earth

You can unlock Unearth after getting the first uncut skill gem, because it is only level 1. The main effect of this gem is that in battle, bone spikes can be generated in the mud in front of you to cause damage to the enemy. What’s more unexpected is that Unearth can even revive corpses along the way as minions for you to drive.

These benefits are actually still valid when you enter the later stages of Path of Exile 2, and can help you deal with those more chaotic battle situations, because it can revive fallen enemies as your minions while causing AOE damage, allowing you to build an army to defeat powerful bosses.

2. Skeletal Arsonist

• Summons bomb-throwing minions
• Make the summoned minions detonate more minions

After equipping this skill gem, you will summon bone minions that can throw explosive fireballs at the enemy, causing significant AOE damage to the enemy-in contrast, another skill gem similar to Skeletal Arsonist, Skeletal Snipers, is more suitable for dealing with single enemies.

It is worth mentioning that if you can have both Skeletal Arsonist and Unearth, the minions that throw fireballs can send self-destruct signals to other minions with low health, allowing you to kill enemies through large-scale explosions - the more minions you summon, the more damage you will cause through explosions, which will be more useful when you are facing groups of enemies.

3. Skeletal Warrior

• Can summon Skeletal Warrior minions
• It consumes spirit during use

The skills provided by this gem can provide you with excellent support in battle, because at the beginning of the game, based on the characteristics of Witch class, your character will be very fragile. At this time, although the minions brought by Skeletal Warrior have weak defense capabilities, they can ensure your survival in the early stage of the game through rapid resurrection.

It should be noted that the use of this skill requires spirit, so you must manage and plan your spirit well, especially if you are also using other skill gems that consume spirit. In addition, Skeletal Warrior can also be obtained by equipping gear, so you can add random affixes to your gear by consuming POE 2 Exalted Orbs, making them more powerful and further exerting the power of Skeletal Warrior.

4. Bone Cage

• Forms a circle of bone spikes around the enemy
• Bone spikes can cause damage to the enemy by pinning them

As a level 3 skill gem, Bone Cage causes substantial damage to the enemy. When you use this skill in battle, you can summon a circle of bone spikes around the enemy, and the bone spikes will pin them when they are touched by the enemy, causing 15 to 22 points of physical damage to the enemy, and even a 15% chance of causing fatal damage.

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It is worth mentioning that when you use Bone Cage in combination with other skills that can summon minions, it will be more effective, especially when Bone Cage pins the enemy, because this will restrict their movement, making it easier for you to let other minions pounce on the enemy and cause damage to them.

5. Contagion

• Deals 1.8 chaos damage per second
• When an affected enemy dies, it debuffs all nearby enemies

Contagion lets you cast Chaos spells on enemies, dealing damage over time to them, and if you knock them down while they’re debuffed, the debuff can be combined with other chaos debuffs to further effect nearby enemies, resetting the duration of the debuff. It can even resurrect corpses of enemies that were infected before they died, allowing you to further spread the debuff when you hit them.

Like Skeletal Arsonist, Contagion is great with Unearth to deal with large groups of enemies. Or you can combine the support gem Magnified Effect with Contagion to increase your AOE damage by 40%.

6. Flame Wall

• Summons a wall of flames
• Deals flame damage to all enemies that come into contact with it

This skill gem belongs to the elemental type and is characterized by its ability to deal fire damage. After launching Flame Wall, a wall of flames will appear in front of you, causing burn damage to all enemies that come into contact with it. If you or your teammates fire projectiles that can pass through the wall, these projectiles will also be added with fire damage, further hurting the enemy.

Flame Wall can last for 4.5 seconds after being released, and can cause 4.2 basic damage to the enemy per second, so when you need a gap to adjust in battle, you can also release this skill once. Maybe the rest opportunity it provides you can turn the situation around in the subsequent occupation.

In fact, besides the above 6 skill gems, you can also find more skill gems suitable for Witch class in Path of Exile 2 by exploring on your own, making your combat options more abundant. I wish you have fun!