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PoE 2 Build

Skadoosh's Decompose Pathfinder

Ranger

Pathfinder

Creator

End Game

By Skadoosh

Updated on Jan 3, 2025

Jan 3, 2025

Build Overview

Are you struggling to do content? Items and 6-link too expensive? Monsters always on top of you? Look no further, this build might be the one for you. With the press of NO* buttons:

Gas clouds fill the screen
Kill monsters before they can spawn
Explode all corpses
Cast while walking
never press your mana flask
Double curse monsters, slowing them to a crawl
Delete bosses
*Manual weapon swap might be required

Explanation of Decompose (Corpsewade): Blood Mage Righteous Poison

Early Leveling strategy:
- Start with Lightning Arrow and Lightning Rod with Scattershot

- Once you get your first ascendancy take Poisonous Concoction and level with a Widowhail and quiver with increased bow damage and +2 to projectile skills

- Corpsewade can be bought at a low level requirement and used early if you want

- Finally, when you reach level 58, you can start following the Starter variant of this build

I go by @Skadoosh_C on twitch if you wanna DM me (I don't stream) or SkadooshPoisonWalk in game.

Build Variants

Endgame

Starter

Farming (Rarity)

This is the Endgame variant that expects a lvl 80+ character, check the Starter variant if you just got lvl 58.

Note that the high stats on gear shown is NOT needed to start this variant, only something to aspire to and build towards.

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Equipment

Set 1

Set 2

- Stat priority:

- Resistance (elemental minimum total 75%, no Chaos resistance)

- Attributes (dex/str for high level skill gems/items, use passive tree)

- Energy Shield and Evasion

- Minion Skill levels

- Rarity

- Corpsewade Our main bread and butter and mandatory for the build to function. It provides the Decompose skill. Decompose can create gas clouds by consuming our minions with Sacrifice. For endgame we want a minimum* level 17 version of the skill for 4 support sockets.

- Things that scale Decompose damage: Magnitude of poison, chaos damage, damage as extra chaos and damaging ailments deal damage faster. If you Decompose your Skeletal Brute then: Minions have increased maximum life and level of all minion skills. Anything related or worded for spells DO NOT WORK.

- Set 1 Shrine Sceptre is an example. Any sceptre will work (except Rattling Sceptre). This is our aura and buff set. Only stat that matters is spirit, everything else is bonus. Use Arcanist Etchers (quality to 20%) to get even more spirit. Minion levels is for Grim Feast scaling

- Set 2 is our minion summoning set. Any sceptre will work. Main stats are level of all minion skills and Minion increased maximum life. Spirit is nice so we can summon more minions, but not required. Instead of a shield you can use Enezun's Charge early on, but makes weapon swapping risky. Another option is Oaksworn for an extra brute, or Trenchtimbre for more minion levels.

- Jewels, two possible routes you can take. Sapphire with poison and area scaling (recommended): https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Standard/9bRDvY4fK or Ruby with block chance and minion life: https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Standard/9brYMvyCK

- Venoms/tinctures(Quest reward): Stun threshold and all attributes/slow reduction.

- Amulet annoint, I recommend Leeching Toxins lategame, not cheap and only when swapping to Acrobatics. Otherwise anything else that fills a problem, like Self Mortification.

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Skill Gems

Support Gem Requirements:

Str 10

Dex 35

Int 70

Decompose

Skeletal Brute

Blasphemy

Withering Presence

Shield Charge

Plague Bearer

Essence Drain

Sacrifice

Grim Feast

Blink

Cast on Minion Death

Decompose

- Decompose has two versions only to show both single-target (top) supports and normal mapping (bottom) supports. Hold Spell Echo and Magnified Effect in your inventory, if you want to use the single-target supports for hard map bosses (if you need the extra damage). If you can get max 10 poison stacks with single-target supports use Comorbidity, otherwise use Persistence.

- Set 1 selected skills: Blasphemy, Withering Presence, Ghost Dance, Plague Bearer, Essence Drain, Shield Charge and Raise Shield, Blink

- Set 2 selected skills: Skeletal Brute, Sacrifice and Cast on Minion Death. Skeletal Brute requires that you specifically set the amount summoned per set, put it at max possible for set 2, and 0 for set 1.

- Essence Drain, Ball Lightning and Lightning Warp can be as low level as possible, to conserve mana, we only care about the shocked ground effect.

- Extraction in Decompose ONLY if you have Chaos Inoculation

- Blink requires a sceptre with 202 spirit (if blasphemy has 20% quality) and a Unset Ring.

SELECTING WEAPON SETS!
- To ensure that a skill is only used with one particular weapon set, you need to configure it in your skill menu (G by default)

- Check out this guide to see how you do it for each individual skill (gem section): https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/guides/dual-specialisation

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