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PoE 2 Build

Leap Slam + Mace Strike Leveling And End Game Build

Warrior

Creator

Trending

End Game

Starter

Warbringer

By Wilsunboxile

Updated on Feb 27, 2025

Feb 27, 2025

Build Overview

Leap Slam + Mace Strike Build

After listening to some players experience I noticed everyone has a few problems levelling up with a warrior class.
With this build I want to provide a better levelling experience with a easy build that will speed up your clear speed with tons of area damage reaching Cruel difficulty much faster.

This build is pretty easy to use you will mainly need Leap Slam and Boneshatter to clear all monster around and for boss again just 2 skills, Earthshatter and Infernal Cry.

If you already reaching Cruel Difficulty then switch to the other variant.

Choose Build Variant between Act 1-3 or Cruel to end game according with your preference.

Build Variants

Act 1 - 3

Cruel To End Game

End Game

When you start Act 1 Leap Slam will not available so until you unluck this ability you can use Rolling Slam and as soon you have Leap Slam you can swap the same support gems to this skill.
For the end of Act 3 you will unluck Seismic Cry and you can swap Leap Slam for this skill which will provide much more stun build up and much safety clearing pack of monsters without taking a hit.

Act 1 - 3 Variant

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Equipment

Set 1

Set 2

EQUIPMENT
The best equipment you can use will be unique items at a early stage! While you are levelling up this items will level up with you increasing their stats according with your level.
All the uniques I am using at this current time can be found in the market for less then 1 exalted.

CHARM
The best choice here is Thawing Charm since freeze is the worse nightmare of every player.

BODY ARMOR
Everything that give you armour and evasion will be good, in this build I don't want to rely 100% on armour because armour will only reduce the damage you take while evasion will dodge the damage which can save your life in several situations.
Belly of the Beast is a really good unique! Besides providing you maximum life and increased armour and invasion also gives you recovery from flasks being INSTANT! This is amazing if you suddenly your life drops you can just press on your life flask and get all your hp full again.

WEAPON
For weapons you have several options but you basically you want to use the one that is doing more damage! You can go dual wield with two one hand weapons or two hand weapon . Brain Rattler is an amazing option providing you tons of damage or Brynhand's Mark with Frostbreath this two together will provide double stun build-up increasing the chance to stun a enemy and also freeze them, it is a great combo!
This are amazing options but you can go with any good weapon you can find.

AMULET
For amulet you want to find something that improves your maximum life, strength, spirit and also resistances.

RINGS
Rings will provide you with extra damage and resistances. Any ring that can provide something like "adds # to # damage to attacks no matter if it's physical, lightning or cold will increase your damage of course ideally you want physical. Rings are also on of the items you want to look for some resistances.

BELT
Any belt that can provide you more resistances and maximum life is perfect. You can also go for Midnight Braid that gives all elemental resistances and 50% damage take recouped as mana, providing you some more mana while taking damage.

GLOVES
On gloves will be good to get anything that adds damage to attacks and gaining mana per enemy killed to provide some mana sustain. Deathblow are amazing besides providing increases armour and evasion they also give you mana and life per enemy killed and culling strike!

BOOTS
The main stat you want on your boots is movement speed! Movement speed is extremely important in POE 2 not just because will provide you more speed to travel over all maps but also will help against some monsters or boss mechanics. Besides that you want some armour and evasion, attributes and resistances. Bushwhack are really good they can provide a good amount of movement speed at early stages of the game.

HELMET
Anything you find with atributes, evasion and energy shield as well resistances will be good. But Erian's Cobble it is an amazing unique to level up providing you with a bit of every stat!

JEWELS
You don't need to worry about jewels until cruel difficulty since this passive nodes will be a bit far away to get there.

Act 1 - 3 Variant

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Skill Gems

Support Gem Requirements:

Str 45

Dex 10

Int 15

Leap Slam

Boneshatter

Infernal Cry

Herald of Ash

Overwhelming Presence

Earthshatter

Shockwave Totem

This is a really easy build to follow. In Act 1 when you start Leap Slam will not be available so until you unlock this skill use the same support gems with Rolling Slam the mechanics work exactly the same way.

When you Leap Slam, Concentrated Effect and Momentum will increase your damage letting you one shot enemies most of the times, if they don't then you have Overpower to build up stun. Once they are primed to stun you can use Boneshatter to finish them! While using Boneshatter on primed to stun enemies this will create a shockwave spreading your damage, this way Impact Shockwave, Execute and Rage will increase this damage killing everything around you.

When you get your first 30 spirit and allocate Herald of Ash this buff will increase your area damage and ignite your enemies as well letting them burn to death. If you manage to get more spirit Overwhelming Presence will be useful to reduce the stun threshold on enemies and this way will be faster to build up stun on them.

Earthshatter will be used for rare monsters and bosses you want to spam this to a maximum of 6 spikes and then use Infernal Cry. When used together Infernal Cry will shatter this spikes doing a good amount of damage. You can also use Shockwave Totem on a boss to provide additional damage.

Act 1 - 3 Variant

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Passive Tree

main:

123

set 1:

set 2:

Your first step is Brutal to provide some more damage then you want to aim for Smash and then Shockwaves and Singular Purpose if you are using a two hand open if not and you prefer a one hand weapon you can go with Impair and Reaving. After gettings this nodes that will provide you some decent damage is time to get some fire damage get Burning Strikes and Burn Away.
Then Blood Rush to increase our skill speed and Impact Force and Impact Area since we are doing a lot of area damage this nodes will increase a lot our damage.
By this point you should be reaching Act 3 is time to get Battle Fever for more damage and cast speed and after that we can go for some jewel sockets or get more damage from Feral Force and Bestial Rage.

How it Plays

MAP CLEARING
Mace Strike it will be all you need most of the times. When not enough Seismic Cry or Infernal Cry to increase a little bit that damage.

BOSS
Ancestral Warrior Totem to increase broken armour, then Infernal Cry and Hammer of the Gods or Sunder to see that insane damage taking half of the hp from the boss