Path of Exile 2 - Minion Witch Ultimate Meta Build Guide Map 15+ Easy

The internalist witch is an incredibly powerful minion ascendency that deals loads of damage both during leveling and end game. This is a fantastic build that is able to clear the game with ease due to its incredible damage and survivability. Hope you guy enjoy the build!
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[@jjz814]

Your videos get better and better- thanks for the heads up- been following since D4

[@emazens]

u have 2 links for build and campaign build ... when should we transition into the second build ? at act 3 ? 4 ? and when it comes to passive tree as we transition into the second build what is the order should we go with as we progress into adding more points

[@LimpeiX]

Thank you for the build, i have so much more survivability now. At first i thought removing so much of those 10% minion dmg is gona hurt but not too bad actually and its so much better now. Was dying even in t1 maps but now able to breeze through 3 and 4 without optimal gear

[@GrindinRyan]

To no one's surprise, your builds in POE2 are just as sick as in D4, great stuff!

[@bulutreisbaydar1681]

I have seen Kripp run heavy hp and armor instead of going block chance. He stated block chance isnt a good state since you get 100% block when you raise shield. Also said crit chance is very low for minions and its a huge investment. I wonder what are your thoughts on this.

[@NKB_POE]

I play similiar build like yours a crit arsonist,been going this way since I accidentally found that malice sceptre on leveling but I've been going hybrid not sure if it best or not basicly I got pretty good sceptre with good roll minion life on it so since I stack minion life for arsonist,I use my SRS with minion instability they use different support gem,and my arsonist can use the best support gem. Crit minion is real,in fact given that many crit minion node on trees is a green light from GGG,minion content creator been busy too much with rattling sceptre. Anyway a lot of thing I can take from this video especially on building defense,thanks,cheers!

[@bennysolo6151]

I have few questions: 1. Why no Raging Spirits as extra DPS since you already spam Walls? Especially on Bosses since you can't Detonate Dead or get Grim stacks, it would be free extra DPS, especially with all the crits you have stacked. 2. Wouldn't Bolstering Presence and skills around it greaty buff your Pain Offering Aura for your minions? 3. I am not sure I understand why you stack Armor so much. If you went for more ES nodes - you could easy get to ~8K Energery Shield without Grim stacks even.

[@Goblin-Inc]

1. The issue is that you have to drop an Arsonist to run Raging Spirits. I believe this is a damage loss, especially when you consider arsonist using up most of the good support gems. Gem quality is also a much larger damage increase for Arsonist than it is for Raging Spirits. Ultimately i don't think its worth running, but I could be wrong about this, more testing is needed. 2. I agree with you about Bolstering Presence. Before launch Pain Offering didn't have the aura tag, and I never checked it again. But yes its actually a great node, thank you for pointing that out as I didn't realize it had changed. Next version will most likely utilize it. 4. Its possible you are right that my armor is over stacked. Its fantastic to have this much armor against both physical hits and for mitigation via Heatproofing, but its possible that getting more es could be more effective overall. This is a pretty complex math problem to work out and will also require data about how much damage different enemies do at different levels. Its definitely a good point to consider and keep in mind for future iterations of the build. Good feedback, appreciate your input.

[@mirasolovklose3888]

1. He went with Grim feast for being a Tank. Perhaps he has enough damage from other sources 3. He selects nodes that use % of his armor to mitigate some elemental damage and also provide energy shield recharge rate. He picked crit nodes everywhere (seems like) so didn't want to invest in ES in nodes. All this is my understanding from video and am a new player so take everything with a grain of salt.

[@TheRealValdil]

To be fair brother, if you think one arsonist will outdps 10 spirits I dont know what to say. It wont.

[@douwe4254]

If its stupid OP, its gonna go on the choping block equally as fast. Any build in PoE that has mechanics that keep stacking on top of each other... creating completely bonker playstyles at that level... yeah, the 'meta' has never survived in that game, for long.

[@Dontess22]

@Goblin-Inc ditch the healing minions go with the flaming skulls that like 50% more dps... your minions should heal just fine with the 3% from your skill tree... skulls also good targets for detention from the arsons 30% more damage and blocks damage to you'er minions and blow up when they die (when killed big dps bosses kill them easy you have been pumping minion health now that's a lot of damage) and are always there so when bossing and all your minions die you can spam out some skulls...

[@Lonadar1340]

I'm gonna work on swapping to this build! Love the detailed explanations of everything!

[@mortekrieger2291]

I was loving my witch anyway, started dabbling in this build and now it's just rediculous. Cheers

[@FarooqLA109]

Insane guide, big thx!!

[@Infestedhobo1]

Hey, just a weird little quirk I noticed while playing with Clerics: If a minion dies with last gasp, the clerics WILL still try to heal that minion even though it's on 0 life. I can picture both clerics dying with last gasp, and then spamming heals on eachother for 4 seconds before dying.

[@juniormint5065]

I might have to try this someday, thought I'm not a big player. Pretty nooby honestly and can never seem to do these builds as they always seem to hinge on something i don't get

[@j.d.3890]

Dude.... Will tell you one big secret. You can apply quality to your scepter with an Arcanist Etchers to have more spirit. This will give you +1 arcanist :D

[@GregoloTV]

Hey I appreciate your video it gave me a lot of insight on how I should change my build a bit. Out of curiosity, is there a huge downside if you ran 2 brutes 1 cleric and then arsonists? I feel like the frontline aggro makes things more manageable. Not sure if its a huge dps loss?

[@darktower74]

When you're explaining the passive tree, move your face and the active game out of the way. Until Mobalytics improves or a replacement is found, the video format is the best to navigate and make use of builds.

[@Concept85]

tOUCHED HIS NOSE ABOUT 68 TIMES IN THIS VIDEO. GREAT BUILD

[@macjabeth5073]

Big brain build - great job man. Hopefully they don't nerf it.

[@ИгорьРено-х5с]

Ty for another vid! But quality of arsonist not showing in game, its visual bugged or it fix waiting room?

[@Goblin-Inc]

Hold alt and then click the command explosives tab. The damage works on their normal attacks

[@kingleil2777]

In before “Chaotic flesh reduced in efficacy across the board” patch notes on Monday. 😂

[@Goblin-Inc]

Oh god no

[@TRONRINZLER]

Please don't get minions nerfed :D About issues getting resists on minions, there is a unique focus that gives all your resistances to minions copied over, so you can have minion resists at 0 and it doesn't matter, they get all your resists. Saves alot of stats on items and points in skill tree. There is also a chest that gives 100+ spirit and a helm that gives 100+ spirit, both can be corrupted for even more spirit but that a lot of RNG and can brick the item. Sceptors can also double stack high rank spirit mods on same item for 50%+ more spirit mod.

[@Hoggi_YT]

what are the least important passive skills? (i don't have enough to skill everything)

[@Xeando]

fantastic build from a noob perspective, im about level 40 but ive got no idea what to do with this info, what to do and what to go first

[@TheRealValdil]

@@Xeando None of it brother 🫣😉

[@jonathanniehaus8358]

Have u ever tried energy barrier for the energy recharge starts right away on cast that way ur not waiting for when hit ur energy shield to restart im just starting to try it see if it works good on one my main use skills was just a idea

[@MoofyCakes]

Is your 1-20 guide still proper for this build? Note the 1-20 guide is missing the Passive Skills.

[@Goblin-Inc]

Yes! You can still play that and then transition into this later

[@MoofyCakes]

@Goblin-Inc OK but note the 1-20 is missing the passive points; also the order of passives in the "campaign" version of this build doesn't seem accurate (which to take, etc). Sorry it's just a bit confusing for somebody making a new Witch to try this build out. I'm eager to try something that's not SRS.

[@rgrtha7179]

How do you get heatproofing on your Amulet? New to PoE so not seen this before 😬

[@Goblin-Inc]

Welcome to poe! Check out this video for an explanation of how it works! kzbin.info/www/bejne/jILYe6KkmN2oicU

[@squid185]

is this an updated build to the Brute Bomber? or is that a separate build?

[@Goblin-Inc]

Update to it, swap to this version!

[@abower911]

@Goblin-Inc It's worth checking if the notables in that armor wheel you are using (Ancient Aegis, Adamant Recovery) are actually doing anything, when I put points into them earlier today, they were not.

[@Goblin-Inc]

@@abower911 I just heard about this today, will test soon

[@abower911]

@Goblin-Inc After looking at it further, seems to just be the bonus ES from equipped body armor not working. Armor does change when it is allocated, ES stays the same.

[@Theo_Blackledge]

would you recommend respecing into this from your original witch starter build?

[@Goblin-Inc]

As you get towards the end of the campaign yes. If youre still doing acts 1-4 just keep on the old build

[@Theo_Blackledge]

@Goblin-Inc thanks

[@RogerFavor]

Can you target allocate the heatproof passive?

[@glebheinke8402]

I wish I saw this before spending all currency for MoM build today

[@therealtb404-vi7nt]

Why are you not using concentrated effect? It adds 40% flat AOE damage and causes projectiles to overlap

[@painplain3753]

I wish you were my teacher, i wouldve been a lawyer

[@Blacksheep877]

very intelligent build, I did a minion build by myself and I'm on level 74 Do you think it's worth changing to this build at this level or should I get to 80 first?

[@Goblin-Inc]

I think its worth it to swap

[@MrAC1DY]

what do you socket into malice?

[@banduytotbunggiauten6853]

Hi, you mentioned upgrading arsonist quality for %max hp on hit effect, but my skill doesn’t show that effect even after I upgraded it to 20% quality. When I alt+hover on the skill, nothing showed unlike every other skills. Is there something I missed?

[@Goblin-Inc]

Swap skill tabs on the arsonist while holding alt

[@yeetmaster4877]

build looks fun. hope they dont gut it like they did for lightning based builds

[@goboyghost]

Is this THE tankiest we can possibly be currently on minion witch?

[@Goblin-Inc]

As far as we know yes.

[@johnsnow6133]

what testing did you do to prove quailty works, cuz from my testing it does not work

[@dread_rob]

don't forget to quality your main weapon to get more spirit incase you need more

[@Goblin-Inc]

Great point I forgot to mention that in the video!

[@Enacra24]

I've been using crit on them but today the crit stat is gone on the arsonists did they take it off or maybe it's just missing on the data thing?

[@Goblin-Inc]

you need to make htem move sometimes to refresh stats

[@DaSaint79]

Which venom vial did you go with in Act 3 and 6?

[@mrfreeman2911]

Most go mana reg and chaos res

[@DaSaint79]

@@mrfreeman2911 Thanks!

[@swuppz]

looking at a 250k respec here :D need to grind more G

[@12deathguard]

Did GGG patch this build or is it still this good? I know they nerfed a bunch of things.

[@Goblin-Inc]

This build is working exactly the same! Its very strong.

[@TheAppledog]

how do you get so many arsonist minions?

[@ah-ys8gs]

Can lvl61 transition to this or still missing lots of points for build to work?

[@Goblin-Inc]

you can start for sure, you will need more minion tankiness though because you will have low res

[@MoofyCakes]

Yah if we could get an updated leveling guide for this that'd be great since most of the leveling guides are SRS.

[@Goblin-Inc]

if you check out this video its a great leveling build with no SRSkzbin.info/www/bejne/opLUiGh3rLRgibs

[@ghostfpp2489]

Do you think this is viable in HC

[@reaprrz_8879]

i was following ace of spades' monk league build and none of the pages are loading now.. any reason why?=

[@reaprrz_8879]

his profile on mobalytics led me here

[@Aisaaax]

Does SRS fall off that badly? Nobody runs it

[@TheRealValdil]

@@Aisaaax I do, works like a charm. But then again i played summoners for 12.000 hours and even these clickbaiters lack knowledge. Its just bait for the 98% that will never create their own builds.

[@DecksterGaming]

Do you have like 2 other channels?

[@Goblin-Inc]

nope this is my only one

[@Gamja1344]

what do you think about Ghazzy's infernalist build compared to yours?

[@Goblin-Inc]

His build is very strong as well. The reason I prefer this setup is because of the much larger life pool. I am currently running around with 7200 ES, whereas mom builds are only getting to roughly 2400 mana. This is quite a big survivability difference therefore I believe this setup ends up being tankier. I also love crit, and think its very point efficient as another damage multiplier. Both setups will be able to do tier 15 maps no problem, but I believe this setup ends up being stronger overall.

[@Gamja1344]

@Goblin-Inc Thanks for your thoughtful explanation! What do you think about grim feast nerf or fix? Is it still viable?

[@TheRealValdil]

Both of them are off the mark, get 8-10k es and grim. Its more than enough, dont waste points into armor that wont do anything for you.

[@jonathanniehaus8358]

How did u allocate heatproof on ammy

[@Goblin-Inc]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/jILYe6KkmN2oicU Check out this video for a full breakdown on how to do it

[@MrLove-666]

Like PoE1, I choose life at 1 and full ES, then I forget about poison and chaos.

[@SlamDance87]

Is there a create corpses spell in poe2?

[@Goblin-Inc]

No, but you can use your minions as corpses with a certain power

[@SlamDance87]

@ like use them as if they were corpses ? Or when they die I can use there corpse ?

[@TheSimo1437]

How to add heatproof on necklace?

[@Goblin-Inc]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/jILYe6KkmN2oicU This guy has a pretty good video on how it works! Its a bit to explain

[@Duuude9448]

why u dont go full ES with 1lifr and immune to chaos damage ?

[@Goblin-Inc]

Would be nice if you could but we get our es from max life, so if we set our max life to one it wouldn't work. We're also getting spirit from max life so we even lose that. This build is designed around having max life

[@Simpagator]

So I screwed up and didn't use my first spirit gem to get either Raging Spirits or Grim Feast. I'm level 19, and I'm debating on rerolling to make sure I get one of the other to help me progress. Do you think following your starter build, I'll be ok without one for Act 2 or better to reroll?

[@kenjisway3528]

You are lvl 19 you will get 50+ more skill gems relax

[@BillyBobber-f9m]

I did the same. ! Just lvl a bit they dropp from mobs in act 2

[@Simpagator]

@@kenjisway3528 It's a spirit gem though, I've been reading up that people don't get anymore to drop until act 3. Just what I've been reading compared to others that it's more efficient to reroll. Could be wrong though.

[@Simpagator]

@@BillyBobber-f9m Oh nice, maybe it was pre patch where they increased the drop rates where I read that spirit gems hardly drop. I'll just keep going then in hopes I get one soon.

[@user_z01]

I did the same thing, and was butthurt, but just powered through with a scuffed spark build until I got to act two, got a spirit gem and the respecced

[@daspoopen6842]

i did most of that but seems my minions got poop dmg .

[@sodmasterkiller1]

yes post the imba build, next weak we have a new patch ... boom nerv :)

[@wrxboi80]

How are yall so damn far already? Ive been grinding also

[@BlahBlahFreeman]

They stream for a living. Don't expect to pull this build off if you're not no-lifing the EA. This isn't a build the casual player will ever be able to complete without massive amounts of grinding.

[@nEsniAi]

Isn’t this trying nerfed?

[@trashcangoblin420]

love this - thank you!

[@trashcangoblin420]

so cool to see detonate dead in the build - I did the same thing (I'm only in act 5 cruel atm) and just wanted something else to spam while fighting and found it was contributing so much when my arsonists were zoning out of reality

[@effortlesslygaming3150]

And they mess with monks why exactly

[@kamlikasura938]

Looks fun, but that means that it will ne nervend into oblivion on monday

[@matpegheata]

and they nerf cast on freeze and coc... lol i should have started minions but I was scared cause poe1 nerfed minions to hard to be viable

[@KeenZorse]

detonade dead is actually op to clear mobs wth

[@itz_x_salvation395]

I see a nerf coming soon.....

[@runek12]

Only thing I can't stand about the witch is, I can't see anything on my screen lol

[@Goblin-Inc]

Very true

[@liquidjinro]

That's absolutely not how the defense in PoE is calculated.

[@marcusnordstrom9251]

Did not do the math myself on the things he talks about, but it sounds good to me. It's not like he gave exact numbers to disagree with. His defences are pretty solid 😊

[@mrfreeman2911]

​@@marcusnordstrom9251in poe 1 damage conversions only happened once. Probs the same in 2.

[@marcusnordstrom9251]

@@mrfreeman2911 could you give me a timestamp for the wrong information? Don't remember any double conversion of dmg 😞

[@marcusnordstrom9251]

@mrfreeman2911 if you take a physical hit of 100 dmg with 75% chaos res, you should get first 85 dmg left after 20% of phys as chaos and 68 dmg after dog take dmg. So all hits are much smaller, and armour gets more effective with smaller dmg numbers.

[@mrfreeman2911]

@@marcusnordstrom9251 you still take 75% physical damage buddy.

[@vroggnevrkla9069]

When are t13gems droping guys, im act 1 cruel and Still t12 cannt wait to have maulers and priests😂

[@Originalsecrets]

i really want to buiild thisss but everything ive build towards started getting nerf the best day and im literally a fresh poe player that went in with full confidence and its slowly getting chipped away. along the toxic poe1 veterans wannabes. things like pile up man

[@Burstylez]

Will get nerfed before i finish the vid

[@westsideboy106]

sad this was my hc build sad to see it published but glad to see others also seeing another way to play witch.

[@leochan5779]

thank you for reposting Kripparian's build

[@Goblin-Inc]

You're welcome!

[@goboyghost]

Weirdo internet losers lol

[@Tylos21]

Kripps build was HP stacking not es/Crit stacking?

[@SNAPZ46]

Nerf incoming… GGG can’t have strong builds like this😂

[@Goblin-Inc]

:(

[@damienluedtke9276]

Hey nose, for dear god add time stamps.

[@AlexJulian88]

So afraid to try this build. Since is good, devs will destroy it.

[@danightryder]

Nerf incoming next patch. 😢

[@Goblin-Inc]

Its possible but I think its unlikely

[@macjabeth5073]

​@Goblin-Inc I'm sure the comet cast builds and demon form builds thought it was unlikely too before they suddenly got nerfed.

[@immortalhybrid7570]

Well thanks now this is getting nerfed

[@MrTommie2006]

Nerf incoming.

[@ShakeWeight4L]

please for better videos have timestaaaaamps!

[@jpkiwi8744]

LOL cool.. Another build to be nerfed ;-)

[@ALLWCG]

dont make video about Minions , or ggg nerf again , I spent 120 hours on stormweaver frost - ggg nerfed more than x20 times this build power , and I’m running now, I’ve already completed 4 acts, I don’t want and I’m not mentally ready to go swap character class again

[@-zm-lucius4947]

Nerf in 3, 2 ,1 ... Never do a Streamer build! PoE is different, be your self the Player. -This is no Content Please gobo give us Info Videos not this Junk.

[@Tonesnob72]

Second

[@pingunata]

I don't understand this builds at all. All you guys using maxes out equipment that cost 50 exalts. Of course you are not going to die. Lol.

[@BlahBlahFreeman]

Literally impossible SSF. Cool build but highly impractical to actually be able to pull off for the average player. Should notate that it's going to be incredibly expensive to pull off. Saying it does "Map 15+ Easy" is massively disingenuous. Should unlist the video until you manage a build that's SSF capable instead of trapping new players into a build that can't complete.

[@aarongates21]

You chose to play SSF, you knew what you were getting into.

[@BlahBlahFreeman]

@@aarongates21 Sure, but claiming that build that requires multiple trade-only expensive mods is "easy" is disingenuous no matter how you try to defend it. Good job missing the point.

[@tylerj3855]

SSF?

[@alanhartman5613]

First ! 😀

[@The_Slayer_King_]

dude waited until it got fixed to post click bait lol just watch his shield not even possible anymore just saying

[@Goblin-Inc]

This is not using the srs bug at all! I am not even playing srs haha. Every clip is post patch!

[@forrest3867]

My dude- your lighting is bad and your set design is bad. There’s no reason to have your webcam talking to us- just do a voiceover. It literally decreases the quality of your videos to have your webcam video on if that’s what it looks like.

[@Goblin-Inc]

Noted

[@NimbZephyr]

I Personally enjoyed the personal touch of being able to see him and his passion for the build.