Hello, Path of Exile enthusiasts! Today, we're diving deep into one of the most exhilarating and powerful builds in Path of Exile 2: the Tempest Flurry Madness build. This build is designed to shred through maps, obliterate bosses, and make you feel unstoppable—all with minimal effort. Whether you're a seasoned player or just starting out, this build offers incredible damage output and survivability, making it perfect for both leveling and tackling high-tier bosses. Let's break down this build and see how you can dominate the game with it.
The Heart of the Build: Tempest Flurry
The core of this build revolves around the Tempest Flurry skill, which serves as your primary attack, movement ability, and trigger for massive damage. This versatile skill allows you to continuously attack enemies while maintaining mobility, making it ideal for both clearing maps and taking down bosses.
Skill Support Gems
To maximize the effectiveness of Tempest Flurry, we'll use several support gems:
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Inspiration: Reduces the skill cost by 40%, allowing you to attack continuously without running out of mana.
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Rage: Generates stacks over time, significantly increasing your attack damage.
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Marshall Tempo: Provides 25% more attack speed, ensuring you can hit enemies rapidly.
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Primal Armament: Boosts elemental damage by 25%, pushing your DPS even higher.
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Inevitable Critical: Builds up critical strike chance over time, ensuring almost every hit is a critical strike.
With this setup, Tempest Flurry alone can wipe out everything in sight. But we're just getting started.
Amplifying Damage with Cast on Critical
One of the most powerful aspects of this build is the Cast on Critical support gem. This gem triggers a spell whenever you land a critical strike. Since our build is designed to generate constant crits, this gem will be triggering all the time.
We'll use Frost Wall as our triggered spell, which creates a wall that we instantly break, causing massive explosions. To enhance this effect, we'll add:
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Icicle: Reduces the wall's life, ensuring it shatters immediately.
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Fortress: Generates more walls, increasing the chain reaction.
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Spell Cascade: Spreads the explosion effect, wiping out everything in a huge area.
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Impetus: Boosts Cast on Critical efficiency by 40%, making the explosion loop even faster.
The result? Holding down Tempest Flurry, landing a crit, triggering Frost Wall, and causing screen-wide explosions that obliterate everything.
Extra Burst Damage with Tempest Bell
For high-health bosses or if you're running a budget version of the build, Tempest Bell adds massive burst damage. This skill summons a deadly shockwave around the boss, dealing significant damage. We'll support it with:
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Over Abundance: Allows you to summon one extra bell, doubling the damage.
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Close Combat: Increases damage to nearby enemies.
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Concentrated Effect: Provides 40% more area damage.
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Leverage: Boosts critical strike chance.
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Rising Tempest: Scales elemental damage per active element.
Simply drop two Tempest Bells, and watch the boss's health bar disappear in seconds.
Budget Version: Herald of Ash
For a budget-friendly version of the build, Herald of Ash provides extra explosions when you overkill an enemy. This skill is perfect for clearing large packs and adding free extra damage. It also triggers when you overkill your own Frost Wall, making it effective against bosses as well.
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Fire Mastery: Increases fire damage.
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Magnified Effect: Provides extra area damage.
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Precision: Increases all skill DPS.
Passive Tree and Ascendancy
Ascendancy Choices
For this build, the Gambling ascendancy class is ideal due to its focus on attribute bonuses. We'll take:
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Enhanced Effectiveness: Doubles the bonuses from our attributes.
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Advanced Thury: Reduces mana costs, ensuring we never run into mana issues.
Passive Tree
Our main goal in the passive tree is to stack attributes, maximize critical hit chance and damage, and grab extra sockets for additional damage and energy shield. Key nodes include:
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Plyy: Scales all attributes by 10%.
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Jack of All Trades: Provides 2% more damage per five points of our lowest attribute.
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Tainted Strike: Boosts critical strike rate.
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Falcon Dive: Scales attack speed with accuracy.
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Heart-Stopping Struck and Heartbreaking: Provide consistent crits with massive damage output.
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Falcon Technique: Increases attack speed as dexterity increases.
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Deep Trace: Grants more attributes, reduces mana cost, and increases attack speed.
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Ingenuity: Provides extra intelligence scaling.
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Patient Barrier: Significantly boosts energy shield.
Gear Setup
Weapon
Pillar of the Caged God: This quarterstaff scales insanely well with all attributes, making it the centerpiece of our build. Focus on attack speed to maximize Tempest Flurry uptime and damage.
Helmet
Zer Disain: Converts 30% of maximum life into energy shield, providing a massive energy shield pool. Socket with elemental resistances to stay capped.
Armor
Moror Invictus: Grants elemental resistances and a massive attribute boost, allowing us to fully maximize our attribute bonuses while keeping resistances in check.
Gloves
Hands of Wisdom and Action: Converts intelligence and dexterity into lightning damage and attack speed, further enhancing our damage output.
Boots
Trample Toe: Provides a significant boost in boss fights by obliterating bosses in seconds. However, if you prefer a more stable approach, use high-energy shield boots with missing resistances.
Rings and Amulet
Focus on attribute stacking, additional life, mana, energy shield, and elemental damage. If you can afford it, Astrumenus is the ultimate amulet for this build, but a rare amulet with high attributes and energy shield will still work wonders.
Mana Sustain
Use the Melting Maelstrom ultimate mana flask to ensure you can sustain Tempest Flurry over long fights.
Build Performance
This build is incredibly simple to play. Just hold down Tempest Flurry and watch as it melts through mobs and bosses. The massive area of effect and high crit chance ensure that everything in sight gets obliterated. Against bosses, drop two Tempest Bells for extra damage, and watch their health bars disappear in seconds.
Budget-Friendly Options
Even if you can't afford the most expensive gear, this build still performs incredibly well. You can start with cheaper alternatives and upgrade as you progress. The key is to focus on attribute stacking and maintaining capped resistances.
