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[0.4] Dumbo's Nova Falling Amazon

0.4 TLotD

FearlessDumb0

Huntress

Amazon

Verified

End Game

By FearlessDumbo

Updated on Dec 27, 2025

Dec 27, 2025

Build Overview

High Damage, one button Amazon build using Nova Projectiles to turn Falling Thunder into an exceptional map clear build with exceptional single target.

Leveling

This is not playable off the beach, as it requires a unique chest armour. To level there are two options:

1) Bow Enjoyer LA Amazon. I'd recommend most people follow this as the respec will be less intrusive later, and Fub has an excellent progression guide as far as you would like to take it: https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/builds/fubgun-deadeye-leveling

2) Grenades Amazon. This is what I plan on leveling as since I don't love Bows. I'd recommend GuyThatDies' excellent guide: https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/profile/8bf106da-d9ad-4ce6-8428-c3dcd05e3523/builds/2f8015df-4c9b-4e35-9b89-a1c77dc224f2

Transition to Nova Falling Thunder

Once you have Voll's Protector you can swap over, the gear requirements aren't too wild.

DON'T TRANSITION BEFORE LEVEL 85. You need enough passive points to take the crit/defense wheels and you just won't have them until then.

New Players

This is not a new player friendly build, you need to know how to solve some basic things before jumping into a build like this.

Strengths and Weaknesses

Excellent Clear
High Damage
Deterministic Weapon Crafting
Rapid Power or Endurance Charge Generation From Movement Skill

Attack based skill pathing is weird, takes getting used to
Need to get through campaign as something else

Campaign Bonuses

Late Maps

High Budget

Venom Crypts Bonus

30% Stun Threshold

Hall of the Dead

5% Resistances

7 Pillars

Global Defenses

Equipment

Late Maps

High Budget

Set 1

Set 2

Equipment Priority

Your priorities are taking advantage of Stalking Panther above all else. At a minimum shoot for 21-22k evasion. With this tree and T1/T3 flat evasion or hybrid rolls you should hit this number and can gear up progressively better from there. Grabbing a magic T1 base and using a single Essence of Greater Enhancement is enough to get started, fill out resists on rings/amulet then improve your gearing from there.

Seriously, don't skip evasion or you will die. A lot.

Mana

Lavianga's Spirits can make mana a non-issue. I'd recommend acquiring one if you can provided they don't get expensive. It's amazing to have an additional constant mana regen source. Otherwise you'll want to get a % mana on kill jewel or invest in some mana regen somewhere on gear.

Soul Tether

Soul Tether, when Vaal Incursion Corrupted to remove the bad downside of losing 5% energy shield per second, is INSANE for recovery. With a single attack you will completely refill your entire HP and ES pool. Highly recommend if you have a few extra divs. It's a very common unique and my experience corrupting them is about 1/10 end up usable, though I acknowledge that's a small sample size.

Hat

Maximize Evasion as much as possible, and consider an additional Deflection roll suffix. If you are just getting started you can grab a magic Freebooter Cap with T1 flat evasion and Greater Essence of Enhancement on it which will give you a roughly 1000+ Evasion starter hat.

Boots and Gloves

You want hybrid bases here as flat Energy Shield is in short supply. Voll's Protector was buffed this patch and provides about 100 more flat ES, but your main source of it will come from your boots and gloves. Just like with the hat you can grab a magic Freebooter Cap and Greater Essence of Enhancement for a pretty solid starter kit.

Jewellery

Life, Res, and at least ONE T2+ mana roll to support your Whirling Slash mana costs. You'll also want one life leech node somewhere on your gear. Your rings (or gloves) are a great place to have it. Flat damage is also welcome once you start min-maxing your setup.

Spear

You want two affixes on your Spear. T2+ Critical Strike Chance and T2+ Attack Speed. The only other mod that is nice to have is Life Gain on Hit. This is just a critical strike generator.

Quarterstaff

Big damage. Lightning is first priority. You can deterministically craft a very good GG quarterstaff, I'll link the video here, or you can find instructions on how to craft it in my discord (in the video description on the sidebar)

Skill Gems

Late Maps

High Budget

Support Gem Requirements:

Str 35

Dex 75

Int 20

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Falling Thunder

Level 20

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Set 2

Whirling Slash

Level 1

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Set 1

Infernal Cry

Herald of Thunder

Set 2

Ghost Dance

Wind Dancer

Charge Regulation

Combat Frenzy

Gem Priority

+26

Supports are ordered in priority from left to right. In general you want to prioritize critical strike chance on your main hand Whirling Slash and Herald of Thunder over all else. This is the engine that drives your Power Charge generation.

IMPORTANT: Use a level 1 Whirling Slash. You can acquire one just by running an Amazon off the beach.

Skill Order

Whirling Slash for a while, then Falling Thunder

Whirling Slash Gem Level

IMPORTANT: Keep this at level 1. It will cost more if you level it, and we don't use it for damage.

More Damage Options

1) Consider taking the recently buffed Garukhan's Resolve as a full time support in Falling Thunder. Once you are around 50% crit chance without Pinpoint Critical you can stop investing in it. Garukhan's Resolve will be absurdly expensive this patch though, treat this as an endgame upgrade.

2) You can remove Nova Projectiles for bosses if you aren't doing enough damage, trade it for Fist of War II or Elemental Armament II or Rakiata's Flow

3) Charged Staff works fine with this build, however it's an extra button and will periodically want to consume your Power Charges.

Herald of Thunder

Use it on your 2nd weapon set only. You will retain the extra attacks through the weapon swap and it will deal A LOT more damage than it would using your main hand spear.

More Spirit Options

If you find yourself with extra Spirit, Charge Regulation is probably the next best aura to run. With nothing else it can provide 27% more Critical Strike Chance up virtually all the time. If you have another 30 Spirit, Combat Frenzy is a good option to boost your movement speed when combined with Charge Regulation.

IMPORTANT: Once you do this, make extra sure Herald of Thunder is 2nd weapon only. This will almost guarantee you Electrocute and generate charges with Combat Frenzy

Passive Tree

Late Maps

High Budget

main:

123

set 1:

set 2:

YOU HAVE TO USE WEAPON SWAP PASSIVES

Don't skip this or you will do no damage and be slow.

Lavianga's Spirits

Once you have one of these (ideally as close to 70% roll as possible) update your mainhand weapon passive set to the High Budget version. You'll recover more mana AND be faster.