Path of Exile 2 Minion Infernalist Witch Leveling Guide

[@Raxxanterax]

Update: Campaign cleared - still 0 deaths!

[@justsomeguywithagrin840]

what attribute should i go for the +5 on the passive tree? all int or should i have some others?

[@chongsncsu]

Holy shit

[@aznwarren]

@@justsomeguywithagrin840 Same Question!

[@Raxxanterax]

I can’t ever tell you sure what to do with your attributes bc it will depend on your gear, but you will need over 120 int by the end, so grab a healthy amount of that

[@im_unknown2you245]

love the build but if you don't go left of Raw Destruction and instead go left at the top of the first attribute you will save 2 skill points

[@Станислав-д9ч]

I can't even express how much I appreciate these build guides, they are so clear, so easy to grasp! Amazing job making POE more understandable for noob like me!

[@AKmumu]

Poe2 is pretty easy to understand if you are willing to put effort into it, people expect big result without even trying anything themselves

[@GuilhermeAugusto-ut2bm]

@@AKmumu says the guy visiting other channels instead of being out in the field making something by himself lol

[@dblaauwful]

Also when you infect enemies with contagion, when they die, contagion stays on the corps. So when those little scorpion minions appear, they are all infected automatically by contagion, then they continue to spread as they attack. Such a great loop!

[@MattR8605]

Contagion also scales in damage the more it spreads

[@andyh2783]

This was the build i was already running pretty much with a few improvements......big ups to my man Raxx.....when it comes to aarpgs me and my best friend treat your stuff like the literal bible......god teir content creator for sure!!!!!!!!!

[@ronon93]

Been playing this build since day 1. Biggest weakness is FPS. In breach it drops to 27 because of all the fire effects

[@DubbedJey]

The stutter is the real boss

[@TokyoLeee]

@@ronon93 you playing on console/tv or pc?

[@mcarr416ix]

Try playing on console, the whole game runs at sub 20 fps almost all the time.

[@WolfeNInfernalis]

Really that Bad on console?

[@Gigabomber]

​@@WolfeNInfernalisnot on series x

[@danielwise3896]

Not sure if this is a bug or not, but when you get the passive skill, "Lord of Horror" (Minions have 12% reduced reservation) you need to click off all of your minions and then click them back. The game doesn't factor in the reduced reservation on active minions and that should get you at least 1 if not 2 additional minions.

[@G1nseng]

GD dude, watched stream yesterday and you'd said you'd do it last night. How you work on all this content so fast is amazing, thank you.

[@aarons3014]

I think this is a lot less likely to be nerfed. It's a combo of simple things working together to pack a big punch. Nice work man.

[@c-tothefourth4879]

They may change the cost of SRS

[@subzero308]

If this got nerfed I'm gonna be done with the game.

[@svetoslavivanov5858]

​@@subzero308Same!

[@randomized8900]

@@subzero308 they are going to nerf it with upcoming patch. you will have only 5 raging spirit and some other sht to destroy this built

[@itzgin3290]

@@randomized8900 Isn't that in already? I have one and a few days ago it was already only summoning 5.

[@TheLastofUsLive]

This was so well broken down in the clearest way possible that anyone who has never even heard of this game could grasp it easily. Thank you man. Im only in act 2 but I learned a ton in such a short time watching this. Easiest sub.

[@styslwsociety8]

As a POE noob I am proud to say I made this build before seeing any guides. Love my minion witch! So much fun especially when you watch the monsters burn 🔥

[@Nathan2904]

bro i gotta tell, one of the best poe videos i have seen so far if not the best, you r covering absolutely everything ppl need to know in a very easy way to understand.

[@sammcclain7532]

8:09 This is huge. I had no idea there was an actual difference between ‘more’ damage and ‘increased’ damage.

[@sol5916]

I love your philosophy in building! Now we get to see you take these classes into endgame and watch you make slight tweaks. Looking forward to seeing your tier 10+ builds!

[@siccens6168]

When I co-op and I see the fire circle and all the Minions I breath a sigh of relief and say it's going to be a good day. 😂

[@JoshTheMadLad]

Opposite for me as a warrior. I cant see what the enemies are doing due to the fire walls. The skeletons look like enemies. You can't turn off the allies VFX.

[@lucasgil9618]

@@JoshTheMadLadmy friend just jumps in and hopes for the best

[@MattR8605]

@@lucasgil9618 a true Chad warrior

[@siccens6168]

Very true!

[@Kromark]

Firewall+skulls just clutter up screen and make it hard to see enemy dmg zones.. also after testing i realised it adds little to dmg overall. I use enfeeble now which means i'm taking less dmg and so are minions...with the added bonus i can see ground !!!

[@jonahmuchnick4056]

Hey Raxx, appreciate the content. I know lots of people are looking for build guides and whatnot, and I enjoy them to see whats possible, but I mostly like to make my own... any chance you can make some "PoE2 for Dummies" videos, like what to do in the end game, tips for crafting and trading, things like that? Would be useful to new players like myself - I'm getting all my info from the global chat right now.

[@beba7625]

As in his descriptions, meanwhile you can also try to look at maxroll. There are also a few resources to at least some of these questions.

[@Raxxanterax]

Sure I can make that, good idea

[@magicmulder]

Sounds tempting. Guess I'll put my main monk aside for a day and try this out. Thanks, Raxx, always a pleasure to watch.

[@Ransackt]

Best build for beginners AND the entire Top 10 / Top 5 on all the leaderboards lol Love to see it

[@mr.gamingz]

thats why the nerf hammer will smash on their heads soon

[@Skjadir3006]

And as always raxx is the hero who saves poe2 for me. I will try rhis build. Keep up your good work. Watching your guides is great. You always learn something.

[@noctoi]

Thank you man, this is EXACTLY what I've been looking for since realising Blood Mage isn't really viable yet. Barely need to change anything to change over from a bare bones minion DOT build to this. Very much appreciated 😀

[@k98Lemur]

Dude, i can't believe I found this video yesterday after suffering to level 30 with a chaos hexblast build that stalled out at the end of Act 3. Within a few hours I had obliterated Act 3. Thank you sir.

[@bobterrwillinger4502]

I was working with an extremely similar build that I put together that I was trying to figure out why it wasn't working. Then realizing swap the wand for the shield.. oh my god. Plus this build with a controller is perfect. I'm using unearth while I work on gems for extra minions and with the shield, it points to the closest enemy which is usually in front of a bunch of dead monsters, so now when I use unearth, it doesn't go to a random wall with nothing, I unearth the monsters directly behind my target which usually spawns max minions.. It's fantastic. Thanks Hooded man.

[@hypewin]

This video is great, thank you. Any chance you could please post a screenshot of your passive tree too? I know there's a maxroll link, but it doesn't show what to allocate the many many attribute nodes. I'm new to the game, so I don't know if I should just be focusing on intelligence or strength or what since I don't know if minion damage scales on. You don't seem to have any mana issues in the game, so what should I focus on?

[@marcking9760]

Same very new too and haven't a clue

[@iamyourgod76]

Great video was about 75% on the same track. 1 QUESTION: what were you speccing into percentage wise, INTELLIGENCE, STRENGTH, AND DEXTERITY?

[@arsentiysauce4444]

What I did was: as much Int and Dex as you need for the gems and the rest goes into Strength

[@Raxxanterax]

Mostly int as the spells are expensive to upgrade at 14

[@sproket343]

This build rips. Finally got it 100% set up. It's sick. Thank you!

[@Emetal88]

Congratulations on the 0 deaths! And thank you for all the content that you provide to help others and us to learn from and mostly enjoy playing the game! keep up the great work!

[@capellozapellini6074]

Let’s go. As a brand new player to Poe I thought minions seemed cool and have been looking for a good video

[@vX_STREETS_Xv]

Great guide, this is actually what i been building on my own. But i see now i made some mistakes getting spell damage. Easy fix...and i see i at least chose the right kind of gear too so im happy about that. Thanks for the help!!! Will fix the build on my next day off 😊

[@marvinnugent8907]

Appreciate the info brother! I was close to this as a newbie beginner in POE, but there were a few parts of your build that helped me become tankier and do some more dps. Thanks for the info and build. I am level 20 now and have made it to the rolling caravan in act 2. I'm liking the game and the minion witch so far. Just going to keep grinding on the campaign and leveling. I'm thinking about maybe merc which was my first choice pre-launch, but back to my favorite type in the minion realm at launch. Seen your content on ranger and that is my 2nd favorite type of toon. Enjoying the game so far. My first ARPG was D4 and I still enjoy it (1200hrs playtime), but this is also fun and challenging in a different way. Enjoy your videos and streams. Keep it up!

[@APurpleSpy]

Minion survival becomes a big issue when you get to maps and you WILL need to invest into survival. The problem is the revive timer resets if a minion dies. So if you fight something that can kill your minions (which is a lot if you dont make them tanky) you will lose one, your damage goes down and the enemies have less targets, which means you lose the next one before the revive and the timer resets, and it cascades until you are alone for the full revive timer and at that point you're probably dead. For personal survival ES stacking and grim feast is well known to be busted and you can take it easily with this build because there honestly arent that many minion nodes we need to worry about and you can pump your ES up a ton. Secondly consider taking the right side of that block tree and find yourself a shield with a high increased block roll. You can pretty easily be hitting over 60% block with just a few points. My witch is at 68% right now and combining that with grim feast means you dont die unless all your minions do first in maps

[@goatyord]

Not reading all that.

[@APurpleSpy]

@goatyord you're on a 24 minute long build video for a game about autisticly over analyzing and optimizing numbers and you cant read a concise comment with a few build suggestions? You lost?

[@DiabloSpawnVII]

Great info Purple! im new to POE and was already running this type of build and wondered how endgame would be! I was getting worried about the survival side.

[@RadomirTM]

While you raise valid points, this is explicitly a levelling build. I agree with you though and think this build does more harm then good - it gives the player (especially a new one) a false sense of security that will perish in the end game. Also this build and playstyle have serious visibility problems that I think are worth mentioning.

[@Fishster]

​@@APurpleSpyI think his issue was lack of paragraphs. I kind of see where he's coming from. Itsonlyonestepawayfromnotusingwhitesoaceatallwhywouldyounot

[@JODOUBLENY]

I’m running a similar build with all minion damage but I’ve gone with the minion crit nodes also. Noticed you used a few of those. Great build dude

[@Zack0409]

Yo thanks a bunch. I have a feeling this will get boring but cant but cant deny how OP this looks. Only had to make subtle changes with my level 25 witch to get the ball rolling with this.

[@GuilhermeAugusto-ut2bm]

Raxx to the rexcue. Nice guide man. Hope you keep it up to date!

[@wasdicay473]

I know it's probably suboptimal, but I went Bloodmage in hopes the Leech stuff worked and to be a Cold caster but never made it to the build before the nerfs. I think Minion Witch as Bloodmage going down the right side of the tree is pretty good. Makes you really tanky, and the minions do all the work so you aren't sacrificing life to do any damage. I'd recommend people try it out before rerolling their Witch that may feel bricked.

[@Ccubed92]

That's me lol

[@jarredgrant1]

Such a great video and so well explained. You make the video as if I've never played the game before, and you'd be right. Thanks!

[@Sheebalba]

sadly GGG will raise the spirit cost of the Arsonits soon. This is what is written in the forum "Skeletal Arsonists Spirit costs now match the other two Skeleton Mages, this should result in a slight decrease in the number of Arsonists at a higher level." 😒

[@mikereyes7265]

Unfortunate :(

[@deadend1]

I think a missed opportunity in your excellent guide (for beginning players) is to explain that Raging Spirits is NOT a witch spell. In fact, if you are following "suggested" spells, you will/can miss the ability from the boss that gives you your first SPIRIT gem, and accidently spend it on a witch aura, instead of Raging Spirits. This was my fail, when I just did my own minion build.

[@Raxxanterax]

Good point I should have said that

[@Tbonesteakayaya]

Thank you so much for this guide. Easy to understand and follow for a newbie. One favor I would ask if you ever get around to it is time stamps so we can go back and forth but not a big deal. Cheers!

[@Nitrosalami]

As a witch I’ve done everything in my power to avoid this build but it seems to be the only build anyone recommends. A chaos/disease blood mage would be cool

[@cranknnutz]

This is exactly what I tried to do on EA launch. I don't recommend it at all. Bloodmage is one of the worst, if not the worst, ascendancy and chaos dot for damage just doesn't feel smooth. You really need to delete the enemies instantly like the fire minion build does or else you start to see the glaring weaknesses of the minion AI compared to enemy AI. The enemies almost completely ignore your minions. The mobs go straight for you and you're left running around waiting for the disease to spread. Someone else referred to the build as a "backpedal simulator".

[@Nitrosalami]

@@cranknnutz ya I’d like to avoid having any minions it’s just not my thing. Blood mage is the only reason I picked witch and I’m lvl 42 so I’m too deep to go back

[@nnamdiodi2079]

This build straight up cooks. I started it today and I’m already on act 3.

[@stainedart1696]

damn you are so educational when you describe everything. Im new to the game and I love it so far, and guides like yours makes a huge difernece. thx alot and plz keep posting!

[@ohLyln]

I am completely new to ARPGs (okay I played like an hour of D4 when it came out) and I was doing this build basically without even trying! I just had fire wall spawn raging spirits and skeletal archers (which I’m gonna switch out for arsonists now!) I’m glad this is a good build because I have no clue what I’m doing but I’m progressing nicely!

[@Vitalizen]

I really like your explanations of everything. Helps me understand my build better. Great video, thanks!

[@Cam-wi3tp]

Thank You Rax, you really helped me understand this class with so much insight. Appreciate ya!

[@snow56border]

"Fill the area flame easily" on the discussion on spell cascade. Just as an FYI, you cant have more then three flame walls up. You'll notice every time you cast with cascade, the old walls disappear. The benefit with cascade would be that it it automatically spread out and not overlapping. So you have better field coverage. Though as you notice, its random on which axis it will use.

[@delryn256]

Started with sorc and Im dying heaps. I've been eyeing witch from the start. Might finally make the switch.Great guide!

[@oldskoolnp5512]

I reached Act 3 on my witch and was getting really bored of my skelly snipers and bonestorm. This is so much more fun. ❤ I did not even have to respec my passive skills. 😂 Great build!

[@reavendark2418]

Thanks so much!!! no ones make guides for newies start is my first poe2 game ever!

[@GeassX]

One thing to note is that the Raging Spirits do actually contribute to your overall defenses. While they cannot take aggro, they do have hitboxes, and will eat projectiles. The rest of your minions reduce the number of enemies targeting you, while your RS minions reduce the number of non-penetrating projectiles you and your other minions have to worry about.

[@mulu452]

I really love these guide videos! Thank you so much!

[@jarlemalmin]

love minion builds. I use Malice sceptre and go crit with skeleton warriors. I do not really use SRS anymore. The fire can cause a problem by you not seeing what is on the ground.

[@MattR8605]

I was skeptical about using a malice scepter, but I got one with 18% spirit, 53% ally damage, 19% ally crit chance, and 14% ally crit damage. All max rolls. It’s been working out so far lol

[@tomtorpedo]

This one is fun and got me out of the log jam. Thank you

[@Meech_CV]

I wish these tree calculators would show what option you choose for +attribute nodes.

[@frodehansen7406]

SRS Is minion’s and +skill to minion’s affects SRS also, if I’m not mistaken you refer to them as a spell.

[@Raxxanterax]

Sorry if I misspoke, yes they have the minion tag

[@blajx]

Liked Fire Necro in Last Epoch, and also love this Infernalist Ascendancy. Something between this mad flying fiery skulls, infernal rings of doom and loyal hellhound just fit together thematically. And u can switch to freaking demon caster if u get bored of minions. And the splashart cool af :D

[@Nebula022]

I really wanted a "plague witch" to work with no minions. Spreading chaos damage and watching the mobs melt, but there seems to be something off with the scaling. It works really good at the start but from the end of act 2 it starts to regress and the damage just doesn't cut it anymore. I would really like to see your take on a build like that.

[@RadomirTM]

I think the 3rd ascendancy will be some sort of bone/chaos solo spellcaster thing.

[@vitoxy5746]

Thank you Redsantaraxx! You even made a guide on how to make a guide, just on the side.

[@T1mboSlicce]

5 am at work and waiting for another build! keep it up my guy!

[@kimberlyscott8041]

Thanks for the builds! As a noob I appreciate it. Along the subject of hand holding… can you do a vid about mechanics and strategies about ritual, breach etc?

[@RhombusOfficial-h5q]

Raxx are you planning to give a Hexblast or Chaos DOT build a try for Witch? I feel like it's in a not so great place right now but if anyone could make it shine, it'd be you!

[@ToffepeerTH]

Always a great starter, and it should remain strong because I think it has a lower ceiling in the ultimate endgame as it should.

[@MyDelta38]

Raxx to his minions: "Some of you will die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make."

[@Waelly17]

Minion build 100% is the handholding i need sometimes but golly gee, monk feels sooo good when done correctly and minions cannot compare

[@samsquatch7285]

Golly gee made me smile. Thanks 😊

[@koko2274]

Good for you, everyone has different personal preferences

[@asapBreeZy]

Yea dude I know there are plenty of easy mode builds but I just can’t stop shattering things with my Monk… it’s soooooo fun to blast around and slap everything. I do need to get a new weapon tho

[@dragonwake]

That's how I feel with ranger. My witch is higher level and "easier" but my God it's so fun to rain lightning and electricity down everywhere

[@BeBeToJa1]

Thanks Raxx. That was super useful for me.

[@dsko61]

Nice build, Im tryin made something like Blood Witch, Minion, Chaos damage. But your fire looks so great, so much better. But Im having fun, so thats the most important for me. TY

[@DocSardo]

Great guide! It is very similar to the early stages of Kripp's build (which I have been following) but I am curious as to what you will add for defenses as you reach higher maps - armor/life focus (like Kripp) or maybe ES focus instead?

[@Antarctide]

That's a good build. For campaign... You definitely need a lot more tankiness for maps.

[@smasherty9163]

What attributes for the +5's in the passive tree?

[@grubi450]

I started leveling my witch yesterday and using sorc skills early on is just better until you get better minions, spark + flamewall is insanely good for first 10 levels

[@chrisv687]

thnx rax you saved my build of the witch

[@statusfx1]

Oh God I hope it doesn't get nerfed. This was basically the build I started with. I have tried many builds since then. There really aren't very many viable end game builds right now.

[@CiaoRobertooo]

Balancing the life nodes on minions with detonate is something to consider, you have to summon the rs to check their life if it’s above the threshold they won’t detonate on skill activation. My first ARPG and I’m enjoying it so far…the on death effects are annoying…

[@chesternelly]

Was hard stuck in act 3 with my Sorc. This build already feels better just in act 2.

[@Scallers813]

Have you tried Meat Shield on Hellhound? He ignites everything based on his HP. And ignite is applied before damage mods like the -35% dmg (shouldn’t apply) so the 50% HP is a massive ignite buff

[@Geechi_]

Chaos minion hybrid works great also if you get tired of looking at flame wall

[@marcking9760]

Fantastic guide thank you. Just a quick one when you are going through the skill tree when it says add any attribute which one should you be going for please? Would it be strength dex then intelligence 🤔 or have i got that wrong cheers

[@dandowodzenka8864]

Are you taking all INT for the +5 Attributes Nodes? Thanks for the video, great build!

[@ptv032913]

You wanna be taking strength (specially for the health) and dex nodes at least until you can equip the gear he recommended. After you meet the strength/dex requirements then the rest can all be int

[@ptv032913]

You shouldn’t need too much dex. I believe I only have 1 dex node and that’s cuz it was required for me to use skeletal arsonist

[@lameo___]

you can get cold damage on scepter and it enables your srs and arsons to freeze enemies.. just for an extra line of defense.. btw.. for late game i'm gunna try to get lightning too , ontop of storm mage maybe so everything will have shock on it :)

[@ftomiwd]

What is not super clear to me in what order I should upgrade my skill and support gems?! Raxx said Skeletal A’s level up with spirit, which is true but the gem itself could be also leveled up by applying high level uncut gems. So please clarify what skills/supports to upgrade in what order please?!

[@billiondollardan]

I wanted to be kind of a warlock dotmaster with the witch. It took sooooo long to kill anything that I actually switched to this kind of build. I don't even have good equipment or all the skills in place and it works

[@thetazero842]

Instead of taking the highway to the left of Raw Destruction, you can take the next left after Power of the Dead. It frees up 3 skill points.

[@digitaljester3545]

@Raxxanterax why are we using solely energy shield as our main defensive stat tho? :O

[@Matheuszin197]

Do you intend on making a lightning build mercenary? A lot of people talking about the grenadier one but not many on lightning and plasma beam

[@uelideschwart4056]

love your guides man

[@Steel_Revenant]

The hellhound is great for defense but I rarely see anyone talk about using Last Gasp. Meat-shield + Last Gasp = almost infinite (not exactly but at least close) to having the hit reduction up all the time.

[@kpeleent]

it would be really nice to know when to spec into strength and dex with the +5 to any attribute nodes. sincethe build uses multiple support gems from dex and strength. so we dont have to respec at some point for more str/dex :)

[@snake13222]

nice guide bro. I just got a second spirit gem. should i upgrade Raging spirits?

[@StultifiedGraphics]

He done what 4 characters , Igve still got my first that only just got into cruel. Crazy

[@PokemonTimeWithAndrewC]

Nice video! I wanted to start witch, but i started sorc then went range. What attributes are the ones for witch? Int? I was also looking at the mana stacking build inerfernalist, but your guide seems easier to follow!

[@Ort1013]

This is absolutely amazing! Side note- On PS5 and I notice the game screen doesn't fit the TV properly. If you go into PS settings and maximize the screen this does help but parts of the game are still cut off on the edges. Anyone experiencing this or have a fix for it?

[@sovelis7727]

You can save 3 passive points by connecting things above the spiral nodes instead of below and up through it.

[@dei_stroyer]

Watch 0:57 to see streamer luck in action.

[@НиколайКлименко-у2з]

what attributes I should choose? I'm new to PoE and don't understand, should I focus on something or just upgrade all of the attributes evenly?

[@timtom1847]

Thanks for this. really nice build. I'm stuck with Raging Spirits at lvl 4. How to raise that lvl?

[@MawxDesigns]

Doing titan stampede is pretty bonkers full screen clear. Have a few backup skills for bosses it’s so fun! I love getting 300 mobs then turtling for a hand of god lol

[@XbraveheartX87]

WOOOOOO! the guide!!!! thx raxx

[@nozdawg]

Such an elaborate video. 🤜

[@77soko77]

Wait.... so "more damage" is like a separate damage bucket? I cant believe ive missed that. Thanks raxx 💪💪

[@erickp4781]

Thanks for so many great builds 🙏

[@UnknownPlayer-gr2lz]

Hi Rax, how can i unlook the 3nd Support Gem Slot on Infernal Hound? Thanks for Response

[@maruko_yt]

Can you explain what minion damage scales off of? Do they have some kind of static base damage? The in-game tooltips don't really tell much :(