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[0.5] PhazePlays MINION CULL WARPER: The Fastest Minion Mapper in PoE2 — 400% Culling Threshold

Mercenary

Witchhunter

End Game

0.5 RotA

Creator

By phazeplays

Updated on Jun 15, 2026

Jun 15, 2026

Build Overview

PhazePlays Minion Cull WARPER Witchhunter Build Guide for 0.5!

This build can farm all content in the game, including full monster effectiveness juiced 200% Delirium maps

Rapidly Lightning Warp through maps and kill everything you or your minions touch! With Witchhunter's Zealous Inquisition, enemy explosions further elevate map clear. Runic Ward fuels the new Wardbound Minions minions for enormous damage. Repulsion and Living Lightning II automatically loop for an Autobomber playstyle!

This unique minion build has 400%+ culling strike threshold while mapping through Horror's Flight and Myris Uxor. This means any normal or magic monster can be warped to, even at full life, culling everything in a large area!

Lightning Warp is the bread-and-butter for mapping. It handles both mobility and clear!
Repulsion + Blasphemy sends out shockwaves when you or your minions hit anything, culling enemies, and spawns Living Lightning II minions
Weave in triple-cast Ember Fusillade volleys while bossing to spawn 6 Raging Spirits for extra damage
Wardbound Minions provides a huge chunk of burst damage for bosses and rares!
Up to 4000+ Sorcery Ward Barrier

This build is incredibly fun to play and shreds maps with unparalleled speed among minion builds!

Check the changelog at the bottom to see what's changed!

Snapshot of my Current Character

(Expensive) Disciple of Varashta Version HERE — Work in Progress

Strengths and Weaknesses

Extremely High Mobility: Huge Warp Range with No Cooldown
Mapping: Mobility and Clear are combined in 1-button
All Normal and Magic monsters die instantly, Rares at 50% Life
Great Boss Damage and On-Demand Burst Damage
Witchhunter Chaining Explosions
Automated Autobomber playstyle with Repulsion

Vulnerable to Damage Over Time
Split Personality Ruby Sorceress or Templar Required
Sorcery Ward shield is hard to track

Equipment

Set 1

Set 2

Equipment Priority

+10

Gear Notes

Sceptre — +4 Minion Levels and % increased Ally Damage are required
Body Armour —Morior Invictus. These can get expensive at the high end, especially going for 3 BiS mods or a 5-socket. Socket with 3x Perfect Iron Rune and 1x Rune of Foundations. First 2 mods are required:
- (9—12)% increased Global Armour, Evasion and Energy Shield
- +(10—14) to Spirit
3rd mod options:
- +(8—10)% to all Elemental Resistances (ideal 3rd mod)
- +(10—13)% to Chaos Resistance
- +(5—7) to all Attributes
- +(45—60) to maximum Life
Rare Body Armour Alternative — As much Evasion as you can possibly get to scale Sorcery Ward. Ideal Rare Body Armour is T1/T1 +Evasion/%Evasion and a +Spirit roll
Amulet — +3 Minion, % increased Evasion, and +Spirit are ideal mods!
- Lategame, this can be turned into a +4 amulet with additional quality from Essence of the Breach. After qualitying it, replace the quality with an Omen of Whittling + Perfect Chaos Orb (confirm that it's going to remove the %Quality prefix of course)
Rings — Make sure to get any amount of "added Lightning damage to Attacks" on 1 ring so that Repulsion automatically creates Living Lightning II minions
Belt — There are a few new minion mods worth considering:
- +2 to Level of all Minion Skills — Suffix (very rare/expensive)
- Minions' Strikes have Melee Splash — Otherworldly Suffix
- 5% of Damage from Hits is taken from your Spectres' Life before you — Otherworldly Prefix
- (7—10)% increased Reservation Efficiency of Minion Skills — Otherworldly Suffix
Gloves — Horror's Flight: ensure that these have the Raven-Touched modifier!
Boots / Focus — These are where the build gets Runic Ward

Weapon Set Assignments

Assign Lightning Warp to Weapon Set 1. Assign every other castable spell to Weapon Set 2
Lock both weapon slots (right-click the "I" above the weapon and focus)

Skill Gems

Support Gem Requirements:

Str 40

Dex 55

Int 135

Blasphemy

Level 19

Lightning Warp

Level 19

•

Set 1

Bind Spectre

Level 20

Wardbound Minions

Level 20

•

Set 2

Ember Fusillade

Level 19

•

Set 2

Elemental Weakness

Level 18

•

Set 2

Frost Bomb

Level 18

•

Set 2

Raging Spirits

Level 20

Skeletal Cleric

Level 19

Purity of Ice

Level 19

Sorcery Ward

Level 20

Gem Priority

+50

Gem Quality Priority

Bind Spectre, Frost Bomb, Elemental Weakness, Wardbound Minions, Blasphemy, Raging Spirits, Lightning Warp, Repulsion

Ember Fusillade doesn't really need quality but should be leveled

6-Link Priority

Bind Spectre, Blasphemy, Wardbound Minions, Raging Spirits, Lightning Warp, Optional: Shrine Sceptre for auras, Ember Fusillade, Elemental Weakness, Frost Bomb

Passive Tree

main:

123

set 1:

set 2:

PSA: The passive tree above uses Split Personality Ruby (Sorceress), so ignore the 20 points worth of travel pathing above! A Templar jewel is a cheaper alternative to Sorceress

Quest Rewards

Check which quests you’ve completed on your character

Clearfell — Beira of the Rotten Pack

+10% to Cold Resistance

Hunting Grounds — The Crowbell

Grants Two Weapon Set Passive Skill Points

Freythorn — The King in the Mists

+30 to Spirit

Ogham Farmlands — Una's Hut

Grants Two Weapon Set Passive Skill Points

Ogham Manor — Candlemass, the Living Rite

+20 to maximum Life

Keth — Kabala, Constrictor Queen

Grants Two Weapon Set Passive Skill Points

Valley of the Titans — Medallion

30% increased Charm Charges gained

+1 Charm Slot

Deshar — Final Letter

Grants Two Weapon Set Passive Skill Points

The Spires of Deshar — Sisters of Garukhan

+10% to Lightning Resistance

Jungle Ruins — Mighty Silverfist

Grants Two Weapon Set Passive Skill Points

The Venom Crypts — Venom Draught

25% increased Stun Threshold

Jiquani's Machinarium — Blackjaw, the Remnant

+10% to Fire Resistance

The Azak Bog — Ignagduk, the Bog Witch

+30 to Spirit

The Molten Vault — The Molten Vault

Reforging Bench

Aggorat — Blood Sacrifice

Grants Two Weapon Set Passive Skill Points

Journey's End — Captain Hartlin

Two Weapon Set Passive Skill Points

Skill Gem(Lv 13)

Delirium Drop

Eye of Hinekora — Navali's Rest

5% increased Maximum Mana

Halls of the Dead — Yama The White

Grants Two Weapon Set Passive Skill Points

Halls of the Dead — Tawhoa's Test

+5 to Dexterity

Abandoned Prison — Goddess of Justice

30% increased Life Recovery from Flasks

Halls of the Dead — Tasalio's Test

+5 to Intelligence

Halls of the Dead — Ngamahu's Test

+5 to Strength

Halls of the Dead — Tribal Medicine

30% increased Armour, Evasion and Energy Shield

Wolvenhold — Oswin, the Dread Warden

Grants Two Weapon Set Passive Skill Points

The Khari Crossing — Akthi and Anundr

Two Weapon Set Passive Skill Points

The Khari Crossing — Molten Shrine

5% increased Maximum Life

Qimah — Tabana's Pillar

15% increased Armour, Evasion and Energy Shield

Kriar Village — Lythara, the Wayward Spear

+40 to Spirit

Howling Caves — The Abominable Yeti

Grants Two Weapon Set Passive Skill Points

How it Plays

Mapping

Lightning Warp handles the vast majority of mapping as it combines map clear and mobility in 1-button

Scan your screen for Blue Orbs overlaying monsters as you move to find your next Lightning Warp destination
Continuously chain Lightning Warp to kill packs of monsters and travel through the map (it has no cooldown, a very short cast time, costs no mana with Soul Drain, and has no noticeable range limit)
Rare Enemies:
- Cast Frost Bomb and then Elemental Weakness
- Or just Frost Bomb and then Wardbound Minions
- Try to keep the Rare enemy inside of your Blasphemy Repulsion radius so that it's culled at 50% life

BUG PSA: It seems that when your character levels up, Blasphemy + Repulsion will stop working until you toggle it off and then back on

Bossing

Maintain Elemental Weakness and Frost Bomb exposure
Cast Wardbound Minions in a spot where they'll take minimal damage
Occasionally, triple cast (or hold briefly) Ember Fusillade to launch a volley of embers aimed at the boss — optionally, aim it at a nearby wall. This will only create Raging Spirits if it hits an enemy or collides with a wall!

Optional: Swap in a +2 Minion Level Helmet with high evasion for difficult pinnacle bosses

How it Works

Culling Strike Threshold

400%+ threshold is required to Lightning Warp to Magic enemies that are at full life. Mapping won't be super comfortable until you hit this number

115%+ Myris Uxor (Corrupted)
200% Horror's Flight — Must have the Raven-Touched line
20% Hunting Companion Glove Annoint (Guilt / Envy / Ire)
25% Bounty Hunter Amulet Annoint (Despair / Suffering / Guilt)
25% Heart of the Well The roll range is (15—25)%
20% Culling Strike II linked to Repulsion

Total: ~405% Culling Strike Threshold

Normal & Magic monsters die instantly
Rare monsters die around 50% Life
Unique monsters die around 25% Life

Ascendancy Order

Pitiless Killer
Zealous Inquisition
Obsessive Rituals
Ceremonial Ablution

Runic Ward

The Runic Ward needed to fuel Wardbound Minions comes from:
- Runeforged Tasalian Focus with +2 Minion Levels and Cast Speed. Optional: use a Sovereign Alloy to apply the (24—30)% increased Runic Ward prefix
- Runeforged Cavalry Boots

Efficiency II lowers the cost for better uptime

Sorcery Ward Scaling

This build can reach 4000+ Sorcery Ward, here are some things look for to scale it:

Passive Tree: There are at least 14 passive points to take near the start of Witchhunter: Battle-hardened, Feel no Pain, and Backup Plan. 12% armour/evasion nodes are worth clicking too
Make sure all of your gear is 20% quality
Body Armour:
- Morior Invictus (check Gear Notes section for ideal mods)
- (9—12)% increased Global Armour, Evasion and Energy Shield per Socket filled
- 3x Perfect Iron Rune, 1x Rune of Foundations
Amulet:
- Up to 50% increased Evasion (Prefix)
- Perfect Essence of Enhancement: (20—30)% increased Global Armour, Evasion and Energy Shield (Prefix)
- If your Amulet has Defense mods, and isn't aiming for +4 minion levels, consider using Carapace Catalysts for quality
Belt: Plate Belt — up to +351 Armour (Prefix)
Boots: Ideal Prefixes are 35% Movement Speed, Life, and a high %Evasion or Flat Evasion roll
Jewels:
- (10-20)% increased Evasion on Diamond jewels
- Desecrated Prefix: (5—10)% increased Evasion Rating / Minions deal (4—8)% increased Damage
Rings: up to +233 Evasion (Prefix)
Heart of the Well:
- (40—60)% increased Evasion Rating from Equipped Body Armour
- (40—60)% increased Armour from Equipped Body Armour
Qimah Quest Reward: 15% increased Global Armour, Evasion and Energy Shield
Other Options:
- From Nothing: Iron Reflexes or Oasis have Evasion/Armour wheels near them
- Path to the bottom middle jewel socket and grab Afterimage and Defiance
- Passive tree wheel with Saqawal's Hide and Saqawal's Talon

Take a look at My Character for an example of a defensive setup

Spectres

Powered Zealots — these cost 55 Spirit when using Bind Spectre
Zone: Etched Ravine in Interlude 3 of the campaign
There are multiple variants of Powered Zealots, make sure yours casts Spark!

Alternative Setup: Varashta

Disciple of Varashta is a solid alternative option for this build but it's quite expensive!

Aldur's Legacy + Deathblow
Put Legacy of Deathblow into Horror's Flight (Raven-Touched mod is required)
Palm of the Dreamer in Weapon Set 1
- Assign Lightning Warp
A +4 Rare Sceptre in Weapon Set 2
- All other spells assigned to Weapon Set 2
Delete Rares and Bosses with Kelari's Deception

Varashta Version HERE — Work in Progress

FAQ

Why can't I reserve these auras on my Sceptre?
- Must run a Purity Sceptre (any variant of Shrine Sceptre) to get free auras
How do I level this?
- Twister + Level 1 Whirling Slash + Skysliver + Wake of Destruction + Flat elemental to Attacks on gear

Changelog

June 13
- Added an Ascendancy Order section
- Ember Fusillade: changed Mobility to Blind II
- Changed Body Armour in the main loadout to Morior Invictus, check the Gear Notes section for ideal mods. Result: Sorcery Ward is slightly higher, slight evasion loss, gained armour, gained ~700+ energy shield
- Added a Sorcery Ward Scaling section
- Slightly modified Passive Tree to get more exposure from Stripped Defences
- Added a Sorcery Ward support gem
- Verisium Manifestations: changed Last Gasp to Efficiency II. This lowers the runic ward cost of each minion spawned — should result in more minions while mapping. May slightly lower the value of the Warding Rune of Bodyguards
June 14
- Added Uhtred's Omen to Sorcery Ward
- Changed Skyfall to Wardbound Minions. Verisium Manifestations may become droppable depending on how and when you use Wardbound Minions
- Reworked guide a bit to incorporate Wardbound Minions
- Noted: only Purity Shrine Sceptre variants (Shrine Sceptre) can reserve support auras for free
June 15 — Major Build Adjustments
- Crit dropped entirely from the tree, jewels, and rings. Spark's 7% base crit is too difficult to scale effectively without a source of Critical Weakness
- Instead, build gained a huge amount of area of effect, a larger Sorcery Ward, multiple jewel slots, and a stronger gem loadout
- Dropped: Zone of Control, Splintering Force
- Reworked bottom of the tree, Added: Volatile Catalyst, Saqawal's Hide, Saqawal's Talon, Defiance, Afterimage,Adrenaline Rush, and a jewel socket. 4000+ Sorcery Ward is possible with this setup
- Be sure to run Wardbound Minions in conjuction with the above changes and use it for single target and rares. Minion resistance benefits these a lot as there's no workaround to their survivability
- Verisium Manifestations is dropped for now as it makes Runic Ward for Wardbound Minions too unreliable
- Options to replace Verisium Manifestations: Skeletal Cleric, Wolf Pack with an Amanamu's Tithe setup, or just pump everything into Spectres. For now, the guide is running 1 or 2Skeletal Cleric + Brutus' Brain